I’m not sure who maintains this, but right now they rank this blog as #3 on the list of top Max/MSP sites:

http://www.topsite.com/best/max/msp

With the recent Cycling ’74 website overhaul, a few things were pruned from the old site structure. One of them those things was ‘./share’ section.

My own ./share page featured mostly things I did about 10 years ago – so the material is quite old. However, I thought I should make those materials available here for archival purposes.

GUI Stuff

Signal Meters — a group of signal meters built with lcd and created to be used in bpatchers. This includes tap.AquaGain~ – an Aqua themed stereo meter/slider combo.

tap.bpatch_vText — A bpatcher which displays text rotated by 90 degrees in either direction. Built using the LCD object.

Audio Stuff

BarleyProcess~ — An older granular patch I adapted from Nobaysu Sakonda’s granular patches (ca. 1998)

8space — 8 In/8 Out Audio Spatialization Matrix with graphical location controls and real-time gesture recording/playback and manipulation. (ca. 1999)

A vastly improved spatializer interface is included with the examples that ship with Jitter if you want to take a look at that…

tap.bink~ — This is an alternative port of Miller Puckett’s bonk~ object. This port was originally done by Ichiro Fujinaga in 1999 for my piece Chinese Food II (for Chopsticks & Computer). When Max 4 came out I did some updating to get it working again, and then some additional work to make it (sort of) work with OS X.

For most purposes you are probably better off using the canonical port of bonk~ . Requires Tap.Tools 1.2 or higher (see below) to be installed. Source code included.

Wave Editor

TapTools Edit — This is a wave editor that I started building in Max/MSP. It is now unsupported / unmaintained, but may have some tidbits to interest folks. (ca. 2001)

Tap.Tools

Tap.Tools is set of over 100 objects (externals, sub-patches, javascripts, etc.) that I originally developed while working on pieces or projects. It is composed of audio/MSP objects like reverb and pitch-shifting, some regular max objects, and some video related objects such as delay and motion- tracking. For more information, check out the Tap.Tools web page.

Other Unfinished Projects

iNset Toolkit v0.1 — Set Theory Analysis on a MIDI stream using Pyrite. (ca. 2000)
As of the release of Max 4.5, JavaScript has essentially taken the role that Pyrite used to have in Max 3.5. It should be reasonably straight forward to port the code from Pyrite to JavaScript if that is interesting…

SuperCollider Compatibility Lib — A very humble start on a package of abstractions to make porting SuperCollider patches to Max/MSP easier… (ca. 2001)

I recently read a post about the platform stats of Cornerstone (the Mac SVN client). They broke down like this (about 5 weeks after Snow Leopard had shipped):

• Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger 4.7%
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 86.8%
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 8.5%

They can do this analysis, probably, because they have the registration system built into the app, which can transmit the platform version info to them. We can’t do that with Tap.Tools because there is no network exchange when you authorize your software. However, we can get some statistics about the readers of this blog. They look like this:

• 35.8% – Safari Mac
• 25.2% – Firefox Mac
• 17.3% – Firefox Win
• 14.7% – IE Win
• 2.27% – Chrome Win
• 1.1% – Firefox Linux

So it’s about a 60/39/1 readership on Mac/Windows/Linux. That’s roughly what I would have guessed. I am a little surprised how many mac users are using Firefox though — that’s a pretty strong number.

A new website has launched over at Cycling ’74. It’s smoother, faster, leaner, easier-on-the-eyes, and the search is a awesome.

For frequenters of the website, most important is probably the new forums. They are so much faster — and the search is orders of magnitude better. Like with any big transition like this, there are probably some bugs and bumps in the road likely to appear — but the beauty of the web is that nothing is permanent and bug fixes roll out immediately. Kudos to everyone at Cycling ’74 who was involved with this overhaul!

And… just in time for the Max4Live release!

Max for Live is now available as a Public Beta.

Installing means downloading a new version of Live from http://www.ableton.com/maxforlive and a new version of Max from http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/maxforlive .

We at Cycling ‘74 and Ableton have been working on this for quite a while — it’s great to see it released into the wild — Have fun!

An old interview about Tap.Tools, Jade, and structuring Max patches has been re-posted @ http://blog.74objects.com/2002/11/25/creativesynth-interview/ .

Enjoy!

All content on the Electrotap blog is now licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Info is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ .

We have talked about doing this for a while but have just now finalized it. Hopefully this is helpful for the community at large.

Enjoy!