Sound Synthesis With Max Or Pd

We demonstrate sound synthesis using a series of patches.

• If you are using Max, save the series of patches for Max max_lecture.tar.gz to your computer and uncompress them.

• If you are using Pd, save the series of patches for Pd pd_lecture.tar.gz to your computer and uncompress them.

• Start up either Max or Pd.

• Read and try the patches.

• Look through further example patches: In Max, see the Max Tutorials and MSP Tutorials in the Help menu. In Pd, the examples can be found in the 'Help' Menu.

• Look at the links for Max and Pd on the PID Links page.

STK

You might like to experiment with a collection of STK Physical and FM synthesis objects. To make them available in Max/MSP, you will need to install PeRColate. Or to make them available in Pd, you will need to install Stk2pd; however, it is currently compiled only for OS X and Linux.

The names of the STK objects are as follows:

• BandedWG~
• BeeThree~ (See note)
• BlowBottle~
• BlowHole~
• Bowed~
• Brass~
• Clarinet~
• Flute~
• FMVoices~ (See note)
• HevyMetl~ (See note)
• Mandolin~ (See note)
• ModalBar~
• Moog~ (See note)
• PercFlut~
• Plucked~
• Resonate~
• Rhodey~ (See note)
• Saxofony~
• Shakers~
• Simple~ (See note)
• Sitar~
• StifKarp~
• TubeBell~ (See note)
• VoicForm~ (See note)
• Whistle~
• Wurley~ (See note)

Note: At one point the noted objects did not work on Pd for the Mac, but I believe that this problem relating to the path to rawwaves has been solved.

PID 2009