Ableton’s Robert Henke (Monolake) discusses Max For Live and his history with Max.

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Henke is one of the original architects of Ableton Live and now acts as part of the specification team, determining the direction for the future of Live.

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Rocketboom Tech’s Ellie Rountree explains generative music and talks to laptop musician Luke Dubois about his work in this medium.

It’s not a very clear take on generative music, but it’s interesting to see this covered in (relatively) mainstream Internet media.

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If you’ve been worrying about how you can incorporate more onanistic pantomime into your act, you may want to check out Eric Singer’s Sonic Banana.

The Sonic Banana may not quite as cool looking as a keytar, but the instrument is completely original, offers unique performance opportunities and could be the perfect excuse for the occasional single-entendre pickup line.

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The Sonic Banana consists of four bend sensors in a row, running the length of a rubber tube, with a pushbutton switch at the end. Software in Max converts this data into musical functions, turning the Sonic Banana into a versatile performance instrument.

More info is available at Singer’s site.

If you’re excited about Max For Live, but don’t know anything about Max, check out max4live’s video tutorials.

This video looks at message ordering in Max. There’s a beginning Max video also.

Kyle Evans created this electronically modified digeridoo.

Details below.

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I created this instrument to experiment in the combination of the organic sound qualities of a didgeridoo with the advanced signal processing capabilities of modern computer programming and sound synthesis.

This custom built didgeridoo features externally mounted modules that allow the performer to process and manipulate the sound of the instrument in real time. All control data is transmitted wirelessly via blue tooth and is controlling several audio processes created in a custom-built software environment.

Max For Live: This tutorial begins to teach the concepts in Max that are needed to program in Max/MSP/Jitter and Max For Live in Ableton Live 8.

Graphic Score Max/MSP/Jitter

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Graphic Score Max/MSP/Jitterhttp://homepage.mac.com/sinx_music/

This video captures some images of an early synth built by Bob Moog for Austrian composer Max Brand (1886-1980).

Moog designed electronic sound equipment for Brand starting in the late 50’s. This modular is believed to be from around 1967-1969.

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Please note that this video is intended to show the machine – the included audio track does NOT demonstrate it’s capabilities – most of the audio being heard on this video is not even from this machine!

This is why Max For Live will kill.

Got an idea for a cool new audio effect? Then Live code it!

This video captures akihikotube “building my original plugin with Max For Live (Ableton Live & Cycling ‘74).”

MaxMSP Glitch

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Unintentional Glitch Program i made when trying to make a graintable synth. i then elaborated on it and added a couple things to it to make some glitch action.

This video, created by The Amazing Rolo, captures Moldover’s SyncoMasher at Maker Faire.

The SyncoMasher is Moldover’s new multiplayer music machine. It combines five music control workstations into one console.

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Moldover has released a new album, titled Moldover, that’s not just a interesting collection of electronic music, but it comes in a CD case that’s a light theremin.

Explains moldover:

It completely redefines what it means to “play an album”… Moldover’s CD packaging itself IS a new musical instrument!

The CD is mounted on a custom designed circuit board, intricately patterned and powering a “light-Theremin”.

Yes! You play the artwork and it makes sound!

Only the musical supervillain genius of Moldover could develop something so stunningly innovative.

The album comes in several edition, including the Standard Edition (no light-theremin), the Pocket Edition (mini light-theremin) and the Awesome Edition (full circuit-board light-theremin CD insert).

You can preview the tracks from Moldover’s CD and purchase it at his site.

Leave a comment below with your thoughts on this bad boy!

This video documents Daito Manabe’s sound experiments with laser tracking of tangible images.

Note how the laser tracking and sound adapt to changes in the illustrations.

Daita Manabe previously documented his experiments with electrocuting his face to create a bizarre music video.

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Alvaro Cassinelli: concept, software and hardware development
Daito Manabe: sound concept and sound generatio
Kuribara Yusaku: latest software development including contour
tracking and interface
Stephane Perrin: participated in early development of the smart
laser scanner technology used for tracking.

Theremax V2 theremin demo.

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The Theremin is considered the first fully electronic musical instrument.

Unlike conventional instruments, it allows performance without physical contact. The movements of the performer’s hands, detected by two antennas, control the pitch and volume of the generated sound. Through the use of digital signal processing (DSP), the ThereMax builds on this concept and introduces a number of innovations. The antennas for hand position detection are replaced by ultrasonic distance sensing.

All the signals involved are processed digitally, a distinct advantage in terms of versatility. Not only can different sound synthesis algorithms be programmed directly on the instrument but also it can be easily connected to other digital sound synthesis or multimedia devices; a MIDI interface was included for this purpose. The ThereMax also features translucent panels lit by controllable RGB LED devices. This makes it possible to specify sound-colour mappings and create multimedia effects in the spirit of the legendary Ocular Harpsichord by Louis Castel. This is the second version of the ThereMax.

The ResoDrum is an electronic instrument played like a hand drum. It is both sensor and speaker.

The sounds you are hearing are coming from the ResoDrum itself, via a transducer bolted to the underside. Tap on it lightly and you get small percussion sounds; hit it hard and it goes berserk.

(Note that the audio and video are slightly out of sync. The ResoDrum reacts without noticeable latency.)

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This video documents Generative Music ProtoType, an “implementation of Brian Eno”, or at least a generative music sequencer, created in Max/MSP.

Part 2 below.

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Luca De Rosso’s OTTO is an electronic musical instrument for realtime manual beat slicing of audio samples.

OTTO provides a tangible user interface designed with the aim of giving the user the feel of having the sample in his hands. The musician can manipulate an audio sample in real time through the use of a restricted number of simple physical buttons and switches.

In computer music audio samples are generally represented as the waveform itself or as little colored blocks. Since the sample inside OTTO as to be controlled really fast, the performer needs to quickly understand where and how to play a specific part. The sample visualization has been designed to provide just the information needed and nothing more.

There are several more demo videos at Luca De Rosso’s YouTube channel.

via Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Music – Peter puts up something incredible every day, so make sure CDM is on your shortlist of sites to visit!

In this video, from Maker Faire 2009, Moldover explain the SyncoMasher, which combines 5 distinct music controllers into one console – and looks as if it was pulled straight out of a DJ’s Tardis.

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Max Jitter+Ableton Live

Jitter analyzes the video and tracks the position of red color on the screen. The position (x, y) is converted to MIDI CC and sent to Ableton.

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Here’s a little Sunday Synth Jam featuring some Native Instruments Reaktor and Maschine remix action.

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A live mashup of this amazing 16bit tune using a patch I made in Reaktor using the Maschine controller from NI. FX on the pads and twisters, bar progress on the top 8 buttons, track section on the 8 buttons to the left of the pads.