One-sentence description of Fourier Transform

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/01/the-fourier-transform-explained-in-one-sentence.html

It's pretty good!

Ribosome patch working - I think!

Thanks to Kyle's eagle eye I think I've got the ribosome patch working; you can download it here. If you try it let me know if it works or not! I adapted Emmanuel Jourdan's patcher for populating umenu  objects - that is a very useful thing which I encourage you to copy.

Update Nov. 28 - now it *really* works.

Tutorial for polysynth

https://cycling74.com/2011/05/05/polyphonic-synthesizer-video-tutorial/#.WBd8-zuOq-I

Ribosome patcher - help with poly~

Here is the ribosome patch I've been working on all semester - I have put off uploading it because I kept wanting to make it better, but I hope you can live with this version for now. It does have a fairly decent implementation of poly~, as well as Emmanuel Jourdan's script for quickly loading a folder of samples for use with sflist~. You can get it here, I hope it works!

Nikita's cello recordings

Look here:

www.stephenandrewtaylor.net/aiff/cello-recordings/cello-recordings.zip

www.stephenandrewtaylor.net/aiff/cello-recordings/cello-Bach.aiff

www.stephenandrewtaylor.net/aiff/cello-recordings/Kyle-piano.zip

Thanks Kyle for sending these!

Rainy day convolution patching

A very nice redone version of the "Forbidden Planet" example patch by Max guru Gregory Taylor (no relation unfortunately):

https://cycling74.com/2016/10/25/rainy-day-max-return-to-the-forbidden-planet/#.WBDU_aOZOAw

Assignment 8, due Monday, Oct. 31

In class today I'd like us to record some samples - anything. I'd like to ask Nikita and Natalie to bring their instruments, and we'll take turns setting up our laptops to record some nice samples.

Then, we'll upload links to the samples here on the blog. For next week, I'd like you to come up with a patch using poly~ that uses these samples in some way. I hope this can be a way to spur new ideas as you start working on your final projects. If we have time, we can look at processing these sounds in programs like Logic, as well as Max.

So I'm putting off the NCSA field trip until next week (again). Sorry about the change! But I think this will be a way to learn poly~ that is more inspiring than some artificial exercise.