Max/Msp for guitar

damonjewel

Thanks for them links,

I'll probably check them out when I'm done with the tutorials.

Here are some links I found useful for anyone interested;

This site is just great for beginners

http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/index.html

The puredata community page

http://puredata.info/community/projects/software

This is a glossary\reference for PD

http://www.flexatone.net/docs/pdg.pdf

This guy is a moderator at the puredata forum, his page is interesting

http://obiwannabe.co.uk/html/music/music.html

A nice tutorial to build a synth

http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData/SimpleSynth

And I have attached my favourite patch that I've found so far; unzip and open main.pd to run

Jagle

very annoyed, i have loads of max/msp patchs, damn you pd haha

Setun

Most max/msp patches could be translated into pd and vice versa relatively easily - then again there are things that max does with one object that would require you to work hard to replicate it in pd.

I've heard that pd is due a GUI update for a long time at this stage - see example screenshots here: http://puredata.info/dev/PdGuiRewriteScreenshots It looks pretty much the same at first glance, nice that it integrates the edit/interact modes from max/msp though - you can select certain objects to disappear into the background when in interact mode so you have a cleaner GUI to play with

Jagle

most software applications for transfering max to pd and vice versa are awful, and as daddio said, you would wanna do it manually, tho he is right some object functions will be similiar others wont, shame,

i hate having 2 standards, and yes what with pd being freeware updates are slow to arrive, one of the reasons i stuck with max/msp, that and i got the student discount so it was much cheaper

Setun

Yeah I used max/msp when I was a student, then my license ran out, and now I'm poorer than a student so I must stick with open source stuff like PD, Processing, and Arduino :P I really wish they'd update the GUI - if I had the chops I'd love to get stuck in and just get it done! It's been long enough already, and the interface frightens off a lot of potential new users.

flyswatter

To be honest, apps like PD and CSound are just as powerful as Reaktor, Max/MSP and the likes.

But they are free and don't cost a ridiculous amount of money to use.

So I'd try the free ones first, sure these programs can be very difficult to learn, but youtube and the likes have great resources. I have a programming background so I understand them well enough.

I'd use these apps first until you can afford the commercial ones. You might end up comfortable with the structure of them and then save yourself a lot of money and time learning to use a hugely expensive product.

Hope that helps!