Beginning Max (due Jan.28)

1. download and install Max = https://cycling74.com/downloads

   • you will need Max all semester, but you can begin with the 30 day trial ... then choose if you want to pay per month ($10/month) or annually ($60 for students) or for a permanent license ($250 once for students = best to buy now when you are a student!).

2. check out the many resources that help you learn Max = https://cycling74.com/get-started

   • my favorite short series is "Did You Know? (2.0)" = https://cycling74.com/tutorials/video-series-did-you-know-series-2

   • my favorite intro to Max is = http://darwingrosse.com/20Objects/

Homework (due Jan.28 at 8pm)

• Watch An Interview with Sarah Belle Reid

• Watch and follow the score to Elainie Lillios' composition Veiled Resonance. Part 1 of 3

  • video

  • score

• Listen to and follow the score (download) to Steven Snowden's Shovelhead

  • embedded audio and downloadable perusal score

• in Max:

  • start by finding the "MSP Sampling Tutorial 1: Recording and Playback" by going to Help > Reference ... then looking for MSP tutorials

    • that tutorial will paraphrase much of what I have already taught you - and more!

    • also check out "MSP Sampling Tutorial 3: Playback with Loops" which will explain the groove~ object

  • prove that you can use the following objects and show you can save what you've recorded into a buffer~ (using the "write" message)

    • play~

    • record~

    • buffer~

    • groove~

  • remember, I uploaded the patch we worked on during class to Box =

    • https://baylor.box.com/s/iww2xi7c6fytfigfeq65mu8j8w6ca6ml

this is pretty cool = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nAeDWgf9Y

but here is our goal (poly~) = https://docs.cycling74.com/max8/tutorials/11_polychapter02