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MPG Carepackage

Nathan — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:22:52 +0000

SEAMUS 2010 @ St. Cloud State University in Minnesota

I just returned from several days at the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States National Conference. In addition to hearing loads of new music, I gave a presentation on the MPG Carepackage. This continues my efforts to get more people using this collection of patches for networking computers running Max/MSP/Jitter and sharing musical data. Overall, the reaction was positive and I hope many of my colleagues from around the country will follow up by downloading the following files:

enhanced podcast of lecture – 14.1 MB
extended abstract in PDF – 104 kb
MPG carepackage – last update 11 Nov 2009, 185 kb

It is worth noting that I gave this MPG Carepackage lecture earlier at FEAST in November and you can download a recording of that presentation. At FEAST, I was a little less pressed for time and so it might be easier to understand the more relaxed pace of that version.

I also had a chance to spend some time with two former Stetson students: Jana Fisher (BA/2009) and Chester Udell (BM/2005). Jana had a piece entitled Top40:France selected for the conference. She created this spectral composition for her senior project and it sounded fantastic on the big Genelec speakers. Chester had a piece for trombone and live electronics that was really well done and I am not the only one that thought so; Chester was awarded first place in the annual SEAMUS/ASCAP Student Commission! Big congrats to him as this is a huge honor.

All in all a good conference. Looking forward to hearing where next year will be held.

Banners around campus made sure you knew where you were at.

FEASt lecture online

Nathan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:21:50 +0000

FEASt Festival 2009 @ Florida International University.

If you were not able to attend the FEASt Festival at FIU, you can now download an enhanced podcast recording of my lecture. The topic of the presentation was network-enabled coordination of laptop performance and featured the public debut of the MPG Carepackage.

The patches involved can be downloaded as well. There are currently no help patches, so feel free to comment on this post if you have questions about this work. The demo should work once you have placed the supporting files in the Cycling 74 folder of your Max installation.

enhanced podcast of lecture – 17.4 MB
MPG carepackage – last update 11 Nov 2009, 185 KB

granular toolkit v1.49

Nathan — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:00:56 +0000

By far the most popular download on this website. This set of externals and abstractions developed using several granular synthesis concepts. Effects available in this download include pitch shifting, spatializing, “clouds”, chord production and looping.

A paper about this software that was presented at the SEAMUS 2002 National Conference at the University of Iowa. Later, an article version was published in Journal SEAMUS. It is available in this separate post and a recommended read for those using the GTK.

The Mac version is Universal Binary. Mac and Windows versions should work for Max/MSP 4.6 and 5.

Special thanks to Tim Place of Electrotap for the windows port of the externals.

Download Mac version 1.49 – 408 kb
Download Win version 1.49 – 500 kb

gverb~ object

Nathan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:36:14 +0000

This object implements the same reverb algorithm found in my Griesinger VST plug-in. It is a pretty good stereo reverb at a low CPU load. It currently allows the user to change the decay time and not much else. More parameters (like those in the plug-in) will be available in future versions. Available for Max/MSP 4.x and 5.

Special thanks to f.e chanfrault for the windows port.

Download v0.5 for Mac Universal Binary – 68 kb
Download v0.3 for Mac OS X – 8 kb
Download v0.3 for Windows – 30 kb

FFTexternals v0.2

Nathan — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:18:31 +0000

A small collection of externals used for various spectral processing. Includes objects for computing amplitude in decibels and a few complex math functions. Available for Max/MSP 4.x.

Special thanks to f.e chanfrault for the windows port.

Download Mac OS X version – 16 kb (NOTE: Not Universal Binary)
Download Mac OS 9 version – 16 kb
Download Win version – 30 kb

cpPan~ object

Nathan — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:52:12 +0000

This object implements a constant power panning formula and applies it to any input signal. Panning info can be sent as audio or control data. Uses a lookup table, so it is very efficient. Also included in the granular toolkit.

granular toolkit v1.10

Nathan — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:42:38 +0000

This is an older pre-Universal Binary version of the Granular Toolkit for Mac users out there that may need it.

Download StuffIt archive – 212 kb
Download Zip archive – 364 kb

See these other post for more information about GTK:

patchname object

Nathan — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 20:59:37 +0000

A simple object that reports the name of the patch in which it is contained. It’s handy for getting information about a patch when working with certain included objects, like using “filedate” to find out when a patch was last updated. Available for Max/MSP 4.x on OS 9 only. This object will not be updated to OS X because the method it uses appears to be broken in OS X.

Download Mac OS9 version – 4 kb

tilt object

Nathan — Sun, 06 May 2001 21:02:50 +0000

This max object implements an algorithm that is used to monitor changes in vehicle tilt for car alarms. It can be used to monitor changes in a floating point values and sends an alarm (“bang”) when those values exceed the alarm parameters. A flow chart showing how the algorithm works is incuded in the help file. Available for Max/MSP 4.x on OS 9 only.

Download Mac OS9 version – 24 kb