Wiimote Music with Max/MSP

[boulton2]

Very impressive!

I only wish I was this talented at Max!

[76Arildo]

Shit man! This is completely lame! I'm sorry, msjhughes you are very, very wrong.

[midinerd]

toasty!!!!

[keyboarddude1973]

i like what you did, i've sent you a message...keep up the good work :-)

[DeafCoustics]

well besides using acid to appreciate this! I am currently doing an interactive media Masters and as a group we are trying to get this effect for an installation and a music performance piece so there is use for this, especially in music and performance, this is a super use of Max, I dont code myself (yet) so I dont know much about the programme but I do know the difficulties involved and weldone in achieving this :) (screw the begrudgers at least you know you have a future ;)

[JamesonBowen]

preacherman86 are you able to program? I presume that you don't. Clearly you've tried MAX MSP and could not figure it out for yourself therefor declare it inefficient, sloppy, counter-intuitive music production software. There's one problem with your statement, you claim MAX MSP is music production software as if it were some complete DAW. It is a programming environment geared towards making music production software and other media related software

[kwantumspin]

very cool. i think we are not very far from "a convenient way to express music".

[piat163]

preacherman 82 - Max/msp shallow by necessity!?! Stop bitching about something you've looked at once and keeked yourself because it doesn't look pretty and has numbers instead of little buttons and knobs that say "press to sound like eveything else out there" It's where and how you use max in making music that makes it so effective. Radiohead, James Holden, Autechre, AFX, Jamie Liddle have all got the right idea and bloody well proved it!

[JaundicedJonJon]

could you pleaaaase add some source code or even Max files?? That would be neat!

[matsuiny2004]

it is in another video

[matsuiny2004]

no this guy posted the information on how he does what he is doing.

[LeBelgeElectrod]

fake ???

[bazmaniaq]

Interesting stuff man,I enjoyed your other wiimote clip so I'm looking forward to your explanatory vid of what your actually doing here.

[davethoven]

the music is a bit shallow but its a cool idea.

[preacherman86]

All Max MSP music is shallow by necessity, since it's the most inefficient, sloppy, counter-intuitive piece of music production software I've ever had to use. Everyone who's ever tried to convince me of its greatness ultimately came off sounding like some sort of deranged new age hippie scientologist. Like, "look maaaaan, you can program the keys on the virtual synth to correspond to different levels of modulation along with pitch!" And I'm like "So? That's what a mod wheel's for."

[midinerd]

You just described key/pitch-tracking. Those far enough into max know you can't verbose-verbatim describe the changes and relationships going on in a patch, because there are probably too many. Eloquent ones are simple and able to be described... those are the ones that people probably don't tell.

Max is fun for me, I've had some time to try to digitize music concepts, put them into numbers. Most importantly, to build things that create computer-music.. striving to be human is contrary; true

[fiori1234]

@preacherman86 max is completely intuitive. The way you can just join boxes up rather than type pages and pages of code make it intuitive.

[preacherman86]

I'm convinced that the people who wrote this software ARE new age hippie scientologists. Have you ever taken a look at one of their user manuals?

Sure, it's great if you wanna experiment and make some kind of unearthly experimental modern art multimedia project that other people would have to take acid to appreciate, but for making music? Gimme a break.

All that being said, this is a brilliant usage of Max and I don't mean no disrespect to the guy in the video, but I'll never respect Max.

[DimmBelkin]

LMAO! youve got a point

[kwantumspin]

you r exactly the kind of person who would praise visual c++ and dislike c. fucking pseudo intellectual acid heads... X(

[midinerd]

True that many people try to do that. Not everyone though.

[megashaman]

Great man... this is really amazing..

:)

[todduk84]

A guy moving his arms around while listening to a CD, thats all this is without an explanation.

[akatuyni]

This is so much fun and really fantastic!!! I'll try a like this program.

[aldonecheeba]

simple in fact.

he's listening to music while moving a useless wiimote in the air.

it's not max msp that will do that, it's the drivers for the wiimote.

[kacaku]

He is controling MIDI using MAX/MSP motion captures.

MAX/MSP is the future...

[DamagedMeat]

Pretty mmmm ... useless if you don't know really what's going on. You should explain what you're doing, I can do the same with one megadrive gamepad and prerecorded Beethoven 1st sym. (Yeah I should try this ...)

BTW, what's the software you're using on Mac to generate the midi from wiimote, I know glovepie for PC but I'd like to find a good one for Mac too.

[msjhughes]

I love it. And I love him! He showed me how it works. It is really scientific.

[ormanay]

Nice to see the positive comments. This guy is amazing.

He can play the piano like a pro, composing his own stuff. I watched him grow up...he is my nephew.

[hellheul]

Fake!

[nunopp]

its amazing

when you explain this?

it liked very much namely .....:)))

[GirlyVoice]

I think he's controlling the tempo, like a conductor, that and possibly the shaker sample

[salpena]

he's triggering samples. looks like he is using the horizontal acceleramator ast the tempo control and the Vertical as the Velocity

[davidfodel]

i wish i knew more about what was actually being triggered by what. buttons triggering sequnces. maybe bass notes being played in real time? i have no idea. it's a nice video but it fails to really communicate anything about the technique, technology or process for me. would love to know more.

[TutorialsGuide]

Nicence show.. Congrats

[Glenchx]

It's amazing how dumb one can look while doing something cool. :P Just kidding, that was neat.

[tbissett]

Very interesting. Although this could lend itself to a bit too much DRAMA!!!!! it's pretty damn cool.

[Icetongue]

This must be exactly what the Wii was made for. Nice work there.

[echowolf]

I hazard a guess that the piano is pre recorded.