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.

Wear Headphones.

Listen – Day13.mp3

Download – day13.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

This is a re-implementation of one of my earliest computer music instruments that was originally created in Csound 11 years ago.

Listen – Day12-Electronic_Bubbles.mp3

Download – day12.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

Asynchronous Noise Burst Generator.

Listen – Day11-Broken_Transmission.mp3

Download – day11.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

Listen – Day10-Phasing-Step-Sequencer.mp3

Download – day10.maxpat.zip (requires Max 5)

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

Algorithmic Music Box.

Listen – Day9_Music-for-a-Utopian-Future.mp3

Download – day9max.zip (requires Max 5)

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

I’m relatively new to Max, having spent no more than two months with it. I’m using Thing-a-day as a great excuse to learn as much about the environment as possible in a short period of time. Now that I have a handful of modular components under my belt, I’m hoping to move towards creating more musically interesting instruments and audio examples.

Download – day8max.zip (requires Max 5)
Listen – Day8.mp3

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

Today’s Max patch features a chaotic metronome, built using the chaos patcher from yesterday’s example. Looking at the picture above, the top half of the circuit is the metronome, which triggers an 8-step sequencer in the bottom half of the circuit. The audio example showcases the chaos metronome with three different settings: 0, 0.25 and 0.5.

Download – day7max.zip (requires Max 5)
Listen – Day7.mp3

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

I created a patcher in Max 5 that generates numbers using a simple chaos equation. This modular component can be applied to frequency, amplitude, quasi-tempos, etc… Today’s mp3 demonstrates chaos as it is applied to pitch.

The great thing about chaos, as opposed to a random number generator is that if you listen long enough you can hear micro patterns emerge, evolve and dissolve.

Download – day6max.zip (requires Max 5)
Listen – Day6.mp3

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

Today, I built the core engine of a harmonic tree additive synth engine.

Download – day5.mxf.zip (requires Max 5)
Listen – Day5.mp3

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.

I built a second granular synthesizer in Max 5, reusing some of the components from my day 1 project. The audio source I used for the recording is that of an old broken music box.

Download – day4.mxf.zip (requires Max 5)
Listen – Day4.mp3

Reposted from Thing-a-day 2009.