the max patch from hell

.cc - week five.

Still going with the MIDI keys ripoff: the ninboard. This week we have a black/white keys selector added, as well as crude delay effect. It may be crude but it's got twice the parameters of the echo effect in Garageband! That's something right?

Max Patch | Text Format

This version has keyboard shortcuts:
arrow up/down : Toggle Octave
Z - , : white keys
s - j : black keys
space bar : MIDI initialise

.reflection.

This Max patch (from hell) is so full of objects and signal flows I barely know what happens with it even now when I look at it. Time to starting using the "sub-patcher" object, I am not exactly sure why, but I avoided it like the plague this week. This ugly patch ending up being a complete overkill of the "send" & "receive" objects which are useful at times, but if overused can create just as much confusion as they resolve. At the end of the day they're (at least) two additional objects to add to your patch, so, best to use them tastefully. The patch could be improved (what patch couldn't?) but I think I have wasted enough of my life on it... for this week anyway.


.sources.

Cycling'74 2006, Max Tutorial, 27.03.07, http://www.cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/ProductDocumentation

Haines, Christian 22.03.07, CC - week five, "UI Controls and Application," Tutorial presented 4th Floor, Schulz Building, University of Adelaide.