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Listen – Day28.mp3

Download – day28.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

This combines the transient detector from Day 15 with the Sine Crackle Pop synth from Day 18.

Listen – Day27.mp3

Download – day27.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

This does something. And what does it do? To be honest, the name of this synth technique escapes me at the moment. More or less, the engine creates an oscillator by cycling through a windowed segment of a buffer, with the window having the ability to move positions within this buffer.

The audio source used in the example is the same music box recording that was used in Day 4.

Listen – Day26.mp3

Download – day26.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

This is a vocoder that uses grains instead of fixed channels. Sounds terrible at the moment, but that can be fixed later. I’m just happy it works.

Listen – Day25.mp3

Download – day25.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

Built a general purpose Multi FX processor. This thing is capable of delays, flange, chorus, crude reverberation and some crazy sound warping. The design itself is fairly vanilla.

Listen – Day24.mp3

Download – day24.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

More experimenting with FX.

Listen – Day23.mp3

Download – day23.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

Experimenting with FX. The audio example processes an excerpt from the music from Day 9.

Listen – Day22.mp3

Download – day22.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

A built a quadrature in Max today. It outputs four sine waves of the same frequency, but different phases: 0°, 90°, 180° and 270°.

Listen – Day21.mp3

Download – day21.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

This is a much more musical version of the Binary Clicker I made a few days ago.

Listen – Day20-Binary_Music_Box.mp3

Download – day20.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

This machine generates tones from randomly spawned sine oscillators of varying frequencies.

Listen – Day19-Additive_Tone_Cluster.mp3

Download – day19.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

This randomly generates single cycle sine waves, creating a very snappy and crackly texture.

Listen – Day18-Sine_Crackle-Pop.mp3

Download – day18.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

Today’s device translates the wonderful world of binary into sound. Inspired by THINGS – COUNTING IN BINARY ON YOUR FINGERS by Bre.

Listen – Day17-Binary_Clicker.mp3

Download – day17.max.zip (requires Max 5)

For Thing-a-day 2009.

UPDATE: Added a Creative Commons License to the mp3.

Day17-Binary_Clicker.mp by Jacob Joaquin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

I built a second transient detector mechanism that is a bit more dynamic than yesterday’s patch.

Here’s a quick run down of the audio example:

Four bars of a drum loop unaltered.
Four bars of the drum loop with accentuated transients.
And then four bars of just the transients.

Listen – Day16.mp3

Download – day16.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

I was inspired by this Audiotuts tutorial.

Listen – Day15.mp3

Download – day15.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

I heart vocoders.

Listen – Day14.mp3

Download – day14.max.zip (requires Max 5)

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.