Objective C for Max 5
I bought my upgrade of Max 5 yesterday, and I’m of course eagerly waiting for my license code. Trying to put Objective-C and Cocoa into all that I do, I found Rémy Muller’s blogpost about writing Objective-C externals for Max. Also, Electrotap has posted ObjectiveMax on Google Code. It’s dual-licensed GPL/Commercial which of course […]
No CoverFlow for shared iTunes libraries
I’m not a frequent user of CoverFlow, but now that I wanted to use it on my shared iTunes library in my living room from the Windows iTunes client I noticed that I cannot select neither CoverFlow nor in an album list. I’m stunned and looking forward to trying it out on my MBP
iTunes@work
These instructions are a great 5 minute guide to using iTunes at work. My mini at home already has SSH access enabled, so fire up Putty, make a tunnel, install the helper app and Boom! You’ve got music at work
What’s up with Airtunes?
Airtunes is/was Apple’s way of putting music in other rooms. It came with the Airport Express, but when the Airport Extreme was updated, Airtunes was nowhere to be found. Worse, Airtunes can only be streamed to one target?!? Now that Apple has released yet two new WiFi audio products, the iPod touch and the iPhone, […]
No Airtunes update
Tuesday’s Apple announcement held many goodies, but Apple seems to be going nowhere on Airtunes. Airport Extreme had been updated, but no Audio Out. And with my Airport Express, I cannot simply add more Airport Expresses to play the same set of music in every room of my house: Because iTunes and the Express use […]
pdj - Java for Pure Data
Too cool! Today I found pdf which is Pure Data’s take on mxj. It’s supposed to be API compatible with mxj, which is great because that’s what I use for all my Java-based externals. Suddenly I feel like I’m in the open again after having been digging myself further and further into Max/MSP. Don’t get […]
Max toolbox
Nathanaël Lécaudé is working on the Max toolbox which makes working with Max/MSP more efficient with nice hot-keys. Look at the demo video and decide if you give it a try.
XCode Max/MSP externals
David has written new instructions on compiling Max/MSP externals using XCode
Ugly VSTi Host
There is a great VSTi host for free available for mac at reFuse Software. It’s ugly and it does the job great! And it’s free. So I’ve finally been able to test the VSTi I made with Max/MSP and it works like a charm.
Google Maps?
Trying to research what areas of Greece the eight church modes came from I used Google Maps. But to my surprise, neither searching for geographic places nor getting details of Greek cities worked very well with Google Maps for Mac. I hope Google will aquire more detailed shots for cities outside the US and make […]
Mattheson on perfection
I’d like to quote Mattheson from Der vollkommene Capellmeister. In his foreword (I read from the english translation that’s close to impossible to get hold of these days. Publishers take note: this book requires a reprint!) he writes:
In France they say:
A passable meldoy or verse
Is not worth the devil.
Scholars are all of the opinion that […]
iTunes music store in Norway
According to Kulturnytt on NRK Alltid nyheter, iTunes music store is coming to Norway April 28th. Does this mean it’s coming to Sweden and Denmark at the same time?
Skale Tracker
Recommended Reading
Miller Puckette is writing a book on Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music. The drafts are available for download.
Sourceforge
Sourceforge has a category for Sound Synthesis. Yay!
Violins are hard to play
According to a mathematician and his student, violins are hard to play, and they go on explaining why.
Praetorius - Puer natus
With December 1st coming up tomorrow, here is Praetorius’ Puer natus in Bethlehem in Christian Mondrup’s transcriptions for the recorder. He’s used ABC Plus for the typesetting for those who are interested.
Note determining object
I finished my first external Pure Data object, a note determining object. This object takes in the number of Hz a note is measured to be and outputs what note it is (the low A on a piano being 1, going up to 88), determining how many cent off it is and how many Hz […]
pyExt
Thought you’d might want to see just how simple it is: my pyext example for Pure Data. I’m planning to make an object that takes in a floating point number of frequency height and determines what note it is and the amount of error according to different scale temperaments, i.e. Valotti, Werkmeister 3, Kirnberger, Meantone […]
pyext for Pure Data
I decided I prefer writing normal logic in a language I’m used to, so I went looking for a Python-external for Pure Data. And sure enough, I found Thomas Grill’s py/pyext (built upon flext, a C layer for Python externals). I didn’t figure out how to install the binaries (didn’t take the time to […]
