Max for Live - The Wacom Tablet Theremin - Using Max/MSP in Ableton Live, with Akai APC40.

Using Max for Live to control the Analog synth instrument in Ableton Live 8. The live.remote~ object passes data at many times the resolution of MIDI (one of the great things about the Wacom tablet and sample accurate modulation from MSP to Ableton Live using the API objects in Max for Live). The Wacom tablet has 5 degrees of hi-res expressive freedom (see below for mappings). Very promising, this is just a quick little study... Cheers.

x axis = pitch (tempered)
y axis = volume
pen pressure =vibrato amount
tilt axis y = vibrato rate
tilt axis x = detune +/- semitone.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Max for Live
• Ableton Live
• Wacom
• Max/MSP
• Akai
• APC40
• ReRunner

[rerunnermusic]

more to come, this was an experiment, i hope to post some Max for Live devices soon

[RhythmDroid]

more people need to see your videos...they are very well made and your music is very listenable. I feel a bit of a Jean-michel Jarre influence in the beats...Nice job.

[rerunnermusic]

Thanks Rhythm Droid! You can hear a bunch of music on our myspace page, we're wrapping up an album right now too.

[kokkobil3]

Very nice: which Wacom Tablet is?

[rerunnermusic]

Intuos 3, but really any will work

[yeapsystar]

Sounds great! This reminds me on that computer program I once downloaded from the BBC website and with which you could use your computer desktop screen as a theremin ;-)

I think this tablet is way more stable & secure (precise)!

[rerunnermusic]

Yes the tablet  is extremely high resolution, I actually convert it to an audio signal to drive the synthesis but there are tens of thousands of sensors across each access.

[Tazio01]

Hi great job!

I'm doing something different from your version but with the same method: the wacom bamboo with max msp, i'm collecting the data from it through the wacom object.

Everything works great but I can't get the tilt infos...

Any suggestion?!

Thanks

[willbeardell]

duuuude. fuckin awesome. high five.

[RoboticusMusic]

How does the resolution compare to that bastard ipad?

[kevinsheaadams]

just an update - a lot of people have been asking about this patch. the max object that integrates wacom devices is unfortunately not totally stable in ableton... has to do with the object loosing focus when nested in the M4L host. I will post it as soon as I can though!

[Soteark]

I own a cintiq 12wx, and i am looking for some software to turn the my cintiq wacom tablet into a stylophone beat box. Any ideas? after weeks of web surfing this video is the closest i can come to what im trying to achieve. I think im going to have to write my own app for it if this turns to a dead end here.

[SpinnaFace]

super fresh!

[skatechatham]

very cool