Mousing Around
I’ve posted two new patches to the Max/MSP section… One is a little obfuscation of mine that happens to make interesting sounds from time to time. The other is my first experiment with interfacing Max/MSP with the MPC 2000. This patch lets you sample in real time and then cut up the sample using the MPC pads. It’s a bit esoteric and it’s only monophonic at the moment, but I definitely plan to pursue this patch a little further. Also, a BCR 2000 is in the mail, speeding its way towards my loving arms at this very moment! Between this and the MPC, I shouldn’t have to do much mousing around during shows, and I’ll have a much more immediate and visceral control of my patches (or that’s the idea).
In other news, my latest (and actually not-quite-finished) track “Keeping Birds” popped up on the local college station yesterday. That’s always a super-nice feeling, too, hearing your own stuff! Thanks WTUL! I’ll have to post the finished version soon…
Bookishly, I’m splitting my time between Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort, and Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos. Dork out!
on February 24th, 2006 at 2:20 am
i just got meself a bcr 2000 as wello! i love it so far. let me know if you get max to speak to it (and have the little red lights respond). it’d be real sweet if you could use the red lights as something separate from the knob they surround … for ex. sample loop tracking progress (a la the little circles in ableton live), or if you could get max to be cued by one of the buttons to have all of the lights scan at the rate of the tempo.