MAX/MSP Books out there?

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:48 pm

henry ford wrote:Ya the pink looks enticing on my computer screen , but i got another book thats pink so its all good. I also believe its the same book , but I wasnt so sure...im not exactly a maxpert , I was gonna email amazon just to ask them. I just found it odd that their website doesnt correspond

i got real sound synthesis for interactive applications by perry R cook , computer sound design by eduardo reck miranda , and microsound by curtis roads. Lots of learning to be done over this dark winter season and beyond,

anyone been reading those titles ?

micro sound at first glance looks to be particularly enticing , if your into granular synthesis...

BT bonjovi ?....is this some kind of joke ?

Yes, this is my sort of lame effort at a Joke- but then, given the intelligence level of the typical electronic musician that utilizes brainwaves to control Jitter- I sort of think his appearance is too. Of course I'm just jealous because my hairlline started drifting away when I was 18, perhaps.

As far as the books are concerned:

Same reaction. None of my emails were recieved.

I Really appreciate the books that you and Computo have suggested, as my sig. says; I recently bought max but havent had the time to crack it yet because of school. If any of these books prove to be more useful, please share!

Also, if anything proves paricularly useful for Jitter, I would love to read it!

stratusseeker · Post by **stratusseeker** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:06 pm

my book is pink!!!I'm also wondering what I'm missing out on in the new edition?

henry ford · Post by **henry ford** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:37 pm

well , im just reading the Todd winkler Interactive music book at the moment , along with the reference guides manuals and tutorials of max.

micro sound looks to be the holy grail of granular and granularesque synthesizing methods, its another book published by MIT.

real sound synthesis is focused on sound for stuff like video games , and interactive applications,

if i was to recommend one , right off the bat...id suggest microsound. at any rate , theres very little overlap between the titles i mentioned, tho i reserve the right to be incorrect until i finish reading them =)
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/de ... 7&mode=toc

i'm hoping to reach a level where i can implement algorithms , such as the one of how flocks move. maybe even AI.......

stratusseeker · Post by **stratusseeker** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:22 pm

It's been a while since I read the pink book, but if there is enough material in there and enough interest, maybe we could do a group read/project together?

nickw · Post by **nickw** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:52 pm

Mines pink too

For those who can't afford Max, there is always Pure Data.
Supercollider too.

Cheers

Nick

henry ford · Post by **henry ford** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:42 am

group project sounds good to me. if we could get our max's to communicate with one another , max could be the middle man to connect our ableton live's together (could also just stay within max...but this is an ableton live forum ?) , through midi at least. if we figured that out , that would be a great start. the rest should fall into place , we could use a max patch to take every participants input , and generate one output that would/should be the same on everyones machine. and so on

i heard of a service , i think its called ejamming , which is more or less exactly that. it transmits and receives midi from all the participants.....

http://www.ejamming.com/whatsejamming.html
costs 20 bucks a month , 100 bucks for 6 months , 180 for a year. and theres a two week free trial

it transfers audio , i think.....could probably figure out someway to just transmite midi for free