Delicious Max/MSP Tutorial 10: Dubstep Wobble Bass!

[shimmertone]

You're smarts.

[IncidentlyTart]

How do i create the "p noteparse"?

[dude837]

@IncidentlyTart @IncidentlyTart Go to otherbirds (dot) com and go to the section for tutorials 10-7. There you can download the entire wobble bass patch, which includes the p noteparse subpatcher.

[minusastoni]

@dude837 Hi! thanks for tutorials! but links to patch files in your webpage does not work..

[ballardaudio]

Quick question, that subpatch called noteParse you have in there, that came from the TB-303 tutorial right? What'd you encapsulate from there to create noteParse? It seems you never made a subpatch called that in that tutorial. Great job with all the videos, they've been invaluable to me. Hope to see more soon.

[arie1ki11him]

That's Amazing! Wobble Wobble!

[03gibbss]

Great tutorial, will definitely watch more, I like your sense of humour. =)

[dude837]

@pockyloveandjoy Oh yeah, 100%. You could even take midi input from an external source. In fact, in the other part of this tutorial I took this patch and moved it to a max for live object. That way I could play this instrument as if it were and ableton live instrument.

[pockyloveandjoy]

@dude837 Thats awesome. I've tried putting kslider into the midiin inlet on your patch, but it doesn't seem to work. I've written the patch till about 6:33 in the video and still can't seem to get the sound to come out with ksliders.

I've also checked my midi setup input and I have no drivers for it? (windows issue?)

So I'm not sure if its a setting or actual coding problem... :/

[dude837]

@pockyloveandjoy Okay, so sticking kslider into midiin isn't going to work. The output of midiin is raw midi. The output of kslider is note on / note offs, or a list of two numbers, a note and a velocity. So in the patch midiin should be going into a midi parse object. The leftmost outlet of the midiparse object should be noteons and noteoffs. Wherever patch cords coming out of that outlet are going, that's where the output of your kslider needs to go. Does that make sense? Hope that helps.

[DankyDubstep]

what are you clicking when you clean up the connections? Like when you turn them to straight lines with a right angle.

[dude837]

@DankyDubstep First of all, I think you just called me a nerd. Which, I mean, fair enough, I guess I earned that one. Second of all, it's command-Y. Command-Y is awesome. I need command-y for my life.

[fallenger]

@dude837 Using command-shift-y takes into account other objects and makes everything beautiful without even trying! It fixed my life..

[dude837]

@fallenger You know that actually uses the A* algorithm to find the best path from one object to another? Isn't that cool?

[fallenger]

@dude837 This information has changed my life! I've been trying to find out how it worked. Thanks man!

[jit3k]

@dude837 whats the A* algorithm. When you guys build the robots and don't have any need for laymen anymore, are you going to make us starve out or are you going to keep creating "jobs" for us?

[peterkleinlich]

I was so lmao at the intro! awesome, dude!

oh and your approach is also pretty cool. keep it up!

[alvrz1908]

is there a way to sync the wobbles to a metro?

[dude837]

@alvrz1908 That is an excellent, excellent, excellent question. The answer is yes, but I guess you want to know how. I think your question taps into a broader Max question, which boils down to "Okay, I've made a million different patches and they sound great alone, but each has his own internal metro so it's impossible to play them together. Wat do?" Obviously there is no one answer but I plan on making a tutorial soon to show some general techniques.

[Pulsetrains]

this is an excellent tutorial. synths in max are cool.

[lmnkable]

one thing though... Just tried playing around with it.. Maybe i did something wrong, but are you sure the wobblebass play in "tempered western scale" corresponding to the midinotes it recieves?

[FreshmanThesis]

Hipstresses? I honestly haven't heard this wonderful word before.

[dude837]

@FreshmanThesis Ha, I guess I forgot that word was pretty specific to my inner circle. Let's see if we can't work it into the broader parlance.

[FreshmanThesis]

@dude837 I live in Oregon, so it shouldn't be that hard.

[lmnkable]

hehe.. combined with a really messy max-patch, people will "drop you street-cred right on!".

I didn't get the part about calculating the square and sawtooth waves from their partials - what is the subject I want to read about called?

Thank you for another great tutorial, they are a lot of fun :)

[dude837]

@lmnkable Thanks for the kind words, glad to hear you're enjoying the videos.

All I'm on about with the even/odd partials is timbre. It turns out that you can make a square wave by summing all of the odd partials, and a sawtooth wave by summing all the even and odd partials. In this patch by balancing one versus the other we can get cool timbral effects. All this kind of talk about partial strength and sound quality falls under the umbrella of waveshaping, which you can google to learn more.

[lmnkable]

@dude837 cool thanks!

Speaking of new midikeyboards, i made this tutorial on how to make a ableton live-style midikeyboard for your computer keyboard.. don't know if it has any intrest, but it works fine i think (but is probably not made in the easiest way ;) ! ).

/Lasse

[DankyDubstep]

@dude837 Why is this so interesting? I feel like a nerd ahaha :p

Great tutorial by the way....sellout! haha

[MrBenoit1842]

Super great video !!!!! Is it possible to have the patch ???? It will be very helpful !!!

[petertenhove]

hi there, could you tell where to find the patcher noteparse? searched all your tutorials but could'nt find it. Thanks.

Great tutorial by the way!!

[dude837]

@petertenhove Umm, I think it's in one of the tb-303 tutorials, unfortunately. If you hear me talking about gliding or glissando from one note to the next then you've got the right one. I'll post this patch pretty soon so you can get it from that if you're feeling lazy, like me :)