Here some odds and ends that I have made
with Max since I started using it in 1990.
These are the collections of seedable random number generators that I wrote sometime in the early 1990's. These classic, OSX and Windows ports are thanks to Jeremy Bernstein. The UB version was compiled by me. Thanks again Jeremy.
NEW! Macintosh Universal Binary
Macintosh
Windows (.sit)
Windows (.zip)
Here is a patch that I started as a tiny tutorial on using Max scripting to change the size of a matrix control object. My students will tell you how much I hate drum machines but I mostly hate them because they refuse to admit that 16 is not the only intereting rhythmic cycle on earth. It is not meant as an application but I have commented extensively and modularized the components so you should be able to see what is going on. Email me if you find it informative. I have bunch more similar tutorials.
I still compose acoustic music now and then but I usually do it algoritmically in MAX. I needed a metronome that could count measures, beats and ticks in meters of arbitrary complexity. I wanted to be able to change tempo, meter and beat subdivsion at will without the funkiness of MAX's tempo and metro Objects. James McCartney wrote an object called pulse that made this pretty simple. The following package has pulse and PulseMetro with help files.
And here is the version of pulse for universal binary along with the pulsemetro abstraction. This archive contains the .mxo external, help files and the Xcode project files including source code.
Here is the first big Max patch I wrote to investigate all sorts of things. It is yet another implemention of the Mozart Dicegame.
This is an abstraction and help file for an object similar to "urn" but without the limit of 4096 elements.
My wife and I have been working on a major interactive video piece call "Emergence" that explores genetic algorithms and evolutionary systems to make sound and image. A recent discussion on the max-msp list prompted me to polish up one of the objects to make "music from pixels."
More to come...
Gary Lee Nelson
TIMARA Department
Conservatory of Music
Oberlin College