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Here's a summary of Max in plain English that might help you to understand what it's about:

Max gives you the parts to create unique sounds, visuals, and engaging interactive media. These parts are called 'objects' - visual boxes that contain tiny programs to do something specific. Each object does ...

This might get you started:
http://cycling74.com/2010/01/07/a-video ... -for-live/

You might be interested in this web tutorial I posted on Cycling74.com awhile back:
http://cycling74.com/2008/06/30/freshen ... #more-1886

While the article wasn't written specifically for Max for Live, a lot of it is applicable there.

I wanted to mention for that the Jitter sale coincides with Ableton's winter sale:
http://www.ableton.com/pages/2010/get_in_tune_with_winter?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=tile_u&utm_campaign=get-in-tune-with-winter

Another detail I'd like to mention is that Max 5.1.6 also features the addition ...

The short answer is yes. Search maxobjects.com for Nathan Woleck's excellent Granular Synthesis Toolkit.

There are also some clever tricks you can do with pattr-family objects, live. objects, and live.param~ with a little extra hunting. Maybe I need to come up with an example...

One thing which a lot of Jitter users wind up doing is thinning the flow of data to only happen at ~30fps. This means only polling your control data once every ~33ms or so, to reduce the amount of extra message passing, since you aren't actually going to see the results of any increase in data ...

The MFL tutorials inside of Live are great for getting your feet wet, but you'll probably want to dive into the MSP tutorials in the Max Help menu for further investigation.

In general, I'd agree with Andreas here, that fffb~ is most likely to give you useful information, as you can tune in specific frequency bands to watch for. I'd also have a look at analyzer~ or the zsa.descriptors objects for other types of audio analysis info - specifically things like the Bark ...

Hi Gavspav,
UI redrawing, etc. all happens in the main application thread, which is also where the jit.qt.movie objects live as well. It's fairly well known among longtime Jitter users that pretty much any fancy UI stuff you do will interfere with your video playback to some extent. Some folks even ...

Doing wavetable synthesis in MSP isn't that difficult, once you get a few tutorials under your belt. That might be a more versatile way to approach this.

Check out the Dependencies window. It's awesome. It's your friend.

AB

The number~ object only captures a single signal value at a specific point in time. In this case you need a way to gather up all the amplitude values into a single list and send that along. There are several ways to do this, my favorite of which is to use some Jitter objects.

Andrew B.

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http://cycling74.com/2010/01/07/a-video-processing-device-for-max-for-live/

Check that article. There's a lot of other stuff that can be done (visualizers, midi-triggered effects, video sequencing) using Live as a host for video devices. One trick I've found to work well for audio visualization ...