Category Archives: The 74Objects Blog
Custom Data-Types in Max Part 4: Passing Object Pointers
How do you pass data between objects in Max? If the data is a simple number or a symbol then the answer is easy. What happens when you are trying to pass around audio vectors, dictionaries, images, or some other … Continue reading
Designing an Audio Graph
In previous articles about the Jamoma Platform and the Jamoma DSP Library, there have been references to Jamoma Audio Graph (also previously known as Jamoma Multicore). Up to this point, Jamoma Audio Graph has not been significantly documented or written … Continue reading
Writing DSP Objects
In my last article I talked about the structure of the Jamoma Platform. That’s a bit abstract to be of much direct use. A primer on how to write a DSP object seems to be in order. So… let’s imagine we … Continue reading
Refactoring Jamoma
Over the last several months I haven’t been writing much in the way of prose. Instead I have been working on the Jamoma 0.5 release, a consulting project built on top of the Jamoma DSP layer, and developing a graphics … Continue reading
Less is Less
This month’s issue of Inc. Magazine features a profile of Jason Fried, founder of 37Signals. The part that caught my attention was the open: You could sum up Jason Fried’s philosophy as “less is more.” Except that he hates that … Continue reading
Introducing Max
So here I was, faced with the challenge of introducing Max to an insanely diverse group of painters, sculptors, ceramics majors, and others – some of whom used Max and some of whom had never even heard of it. Last … Continue reading
Poème Symphonique
Last night I attended a concert of György Ligeti’s music hosted by newEar in Kansas City. It was spectacular. I don’t think the review in the Kansas City Star really did it justice. Where the review was spot-on is in … Continue reading
From the Expo
Last week I was a participant in Expo ’74, Cycling ’74‘s first Max user conference. It was 120 Max-heads totally stoked-up about each other’s work and the work we’ve been doing at Cycling ’74 over the last while. Unlike the … Continue reading
Not So Big…
This past week I received a gift. It was a DVD called “The Not So Big House” by Sarah Susanka. She has also written a couple of books, though I haven’t read them (or at least not yet). It doesn’t … Continue reading
The Jamoma Platform
In the series Custom Data-Types in Max there is frequent reference to Jamoma. Jamoma is “A Platform for Interactive Art-based Research and Performance”. Sounds great, right? But what does it mean by “A Platform”? How is it structured? What are … Continue reading
