Best way to learn max for live

[stockylocky]

Hi there,

When I get my new macpro up and running with ableton I am making it my mission to learn max for live.... can any of you gurus point me towards the resources I will need to begin my learning journey? I am of limited intelligence so any help appreciated

Cheers in advance

[synnack]

check http://www.max4live.info/

The built-in tutorials in Max are also good. First step in learning max for live is learning max/msp.

Also recommend the tutorials from Baz http://www.youtube.com/user/BazTutorials

[swishniak]

ive been at it for a couple weeks now and i can recommend going through the max tutorials. as un-exciting as they might be, i learned alot in a short amount of time. i spent the first week tinkering around with existing patches which was fun but there are certain things that you wont learn from that. .

[dalinnen]

One other suggestion. The Max tutorials were rewritten for Max 5, but if you are going after the basics, many of the older tutorials are still very good (and a bit more narrative in form). They can be downloaded from Cycling's site here....

http://cycling74.com/download/maxmsp46doc.zip

The relevant documents are the "Max46Tutorial.pdf" file and the patches in the "Max Tutorials" folder, within "Tutorial Patches". Other PDFs can be useful as well.

Hope this helps,
Dave Linnenbank

[The Northern Contingent]

One other suggestion. The Max tutorials were rewritten for Max 5, but if you are going after the basics, many of the older tutorials are still very good (and a bit more narrative in form). They can be downloaded from Cycling's site here....

http://cycling74.com/download/maxmsp46doc.zip

The relevant documents are the "Max46Tutorial.pdf" file and the patches in the "Max Tutorials" folder, within "Tutorial Patches". Other PDFs can be useful as well.

Hope this helps,
Dave Linnenbank

Hey - cheers for this mate. I'm trying to learn Max myself and this is a great series of lessons. The pre-included material in Max 5 wasn't sticking for me, but the series here include regular 'tests' that get you to put into action the different objects etc. that you've been learning about.

On another note, I heard a while back about a book that was coming out soon that was a course designed to teach Max. Problem is I've forgotten it! Does anyone else know of this, and when it might be coming out?

[dalinnen]

On another note, I heard a while back about a book that was coming out soon that was a course designed to teach Max. Problem is I've forgotten it! Does anyone else know of this, and when it might be coming out?

Maybe this is what you are thinking of....

http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=26999

Just from reading this post, it seems designed to teach sound synthesis techniques, et cetera, to people who ALREADY know MaxMSP. Someone involved would know far better.

Dave Linnenbank

[The Northern Contingent]

Cheers Dave - yes, that's the one. I didn't realise it was more advanced - oh well, back to the tutorials!

[drchoc]

I started with the tutorials built in to live but have since found the ones built in to max (via help menu or from here http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/tutorial ... index.html) to be a lot better paced for a begginer.

When I get back from my holiday my aim is to do two tutorials a day.

[leedsquietman]

Best way to learn max for live

get studying nuclear physics and make contacts at NASA

or

drop lots of acid and randomly click things ....

[Housefly88]

Johbremat,

Not sure how much your on the monome forums, but liveosc (Stretta) and even 7up has a clip launcher. And welcome to the monome
I am also willing to bet, that there are several people on the boards (monome) that will throw you a patch together to alow you to "paint" midi notes. I cant think right now of the name, but there are quita a few patches that will step sequence with indiviual sounds on each row.

//Molar VST (not a M4L patch) is your best friend.

+1. Been looking for a blog or site that might have straightforward instructions on simple tasks and then I'd go daisychain them myself, but s'pose that was me being a bit too hopeful.

The monome has arrived and itching to get something working. Don't expect someone will build the patches for me - unless you're bored - but hoping to find resources that will allow me to achieve a series of small tasks in the hope of making one monstrous patch.


- display populated(lit buttons) and playing(flashing buttons) clips for a track/group track (like the APC?)
- display, and 'paint', MIDI notes for a clip
- display, and 'paint', MIDI notes for clips in up to 8 tracks of one scene (so Drum Rack with 8 hits would populate one row each on the monome, for sequencing)


Hopefully won't have to make any instruments in MFL: would like to stay within Live and all its instruments...

[squelcht]

Best way to learn max for live

drop lots of acid and randomly click things ....

it just works?