#cycling74 — Public Fediverse posts

https://youtu.be/3Z60GJNDUOo?si=-60OiFgIJCwwJwFj
I had the pleasure of being commissioned by Cycling' 74 to participate in the Sound Mirror project. I invite you to take a step-by-step guide to creating your oscillator, exporting your wavetables, and have fun :) with Max9
#sebairstein #maxmsp #soundmirror #cycling74

Hello world.
#maxmsp #cycling74 #gen~
#electronicmusic #digitalart

And here's the results of the mp3 glitching script (https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/04/databending-part-3/) played with the MuBu concatenative synthesis tools in Max/MSP

I'm analyzing the file based on transients, sorting the segments according to loudness (Y axis) and average frequency of the spectrum (X axis), then playing through those segments using those groupings

#MaxMSP #Cycling74 #Glitch #GlitchArt #ExperimentalMusic #SoundDesign #ElectronicMusic #MusicProduction #Musodon

Doing a talk tomorrow for the Centre for Digital Music at 2PM GMT which will be also be streamed online.

If you're in London you can find it here:
https://comma.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/timbre-tools-hackathon/

It will also be streamed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhOeLHZ_sIU

I'll be talking about SP-Tools: Machine Learning tools for low latency real-time performance

#machinelearning #maxmsp #cycling74

@ramin_hal9001 nice, I hadn't seen cabbage before. But yeah, Pd is pretty bare bones. I used to be a #MaxMSP power user, which I think is the most advanced implementation of visual *programming* to date, both in the ridiculously customizable development environment that allows you to design GUIs, and with all kinds of interesting debugging tools and the low level gen~ languages that include a jit compiler that allows you to do signal manipulation with the per/sample precision needed to implement zero-delay filters (which are necessary for producing nonlinearities in signal harmonics characteristic of studio analog tape echoes), an area of programming where the stop-the-world effect of garbage collection rules out most high-level languages.

Its really such an amazing system, and something #Ableton would GPL if they knew whats good for them; too much incredible software has been created in Max by important artists and composers to keep it from the world, and Max is being held back by keeping it under the control of #cycling74. C74 should become the cycling74 foundation, then Max could explode, C74 folks could keep their jobs, and Ableton would get integrations with the massive realm of FOSS software by way of Max's expanded reach and rapid development that comes with a free and open source project. And they'd be able to direct a non-profit foundation, which would expand their reach as a company significantly.

I had to stop using it because its proprietary nature creates to many hurdles in the Max SDK to keep up with the rest of the world at the required pace to deliver interactive installations to production events. Jitter in particular is stuck in the stone ages, only reaching openGL 2 with gpu accelerated instancing in like 2017, something I needed in 2010.

I like ableton, ive met Robert Henke and am an old monolake fan. But I hope they can, as artist, think about how important Max has been in art and how it shouldn't remain locked down. Ableton fine, idc, musicians don't share their arrangements anyway. But Max was always this pretending-to-be-open project. It should finally become one.

I opened up Max again.

It's starting.

#Max #cycling74 #composition #newmusic

Here’s version v0.8 of SP-Tools, Machine Learning Tools for Drums and Percussion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zulgaFZNH4

This one’s been a long time coming and is the biggest update so far, adding a whopping 16 new abstractions and 3 new Max for Live devices (full changelog below).

There’s also a Discord server now for updates, sharing patches/corpora, new ideas, etc…:
https://discord.gg/Vy2zuKQkqN

#maxmsp #machinelearning #cycling74 #drums #percussion #synthesis

With v0.8 of SP-Tools around the corner, I've decided to setup a discord server for the project. I'm going to properly launch it in the next update video but if you'd like to join already, here's the link:
https://discord.gg/Vy2zuKQkqN

Here's the initial teaser video to get an idea of what it's about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXLFH496TBI

Even though that's only 7 months ago, there's been *soo* mange additions since then!

#max #cycling74 #machineLearning #drums #percussion #electronics #music