Outline of Peak tools + Microphones in studios
Below is the outline for the presentations I did on Peak. Also, I have placed one microphone in studios C & D for you all to use for project 4.1. Go ahead and sign up for studio time and begin your sessions.
Working in Peak – Organizing your sounds & playing with them
I. Peak basics
Where is everything?
- Tools & buttons
- Audio set-up
- Getting around in your sound file
- Zoom in/out
- Fade in/out
- Recording into Peak
II. Making Regions and the first step in organizing your sounds
- How to make regions
- Exporting regions
- Creating stereo/mono files
- Copy/paste
III. DSP and playing with your sounds
- Changing the amplitude
- Normalize RMS
- Working with and creating amplitude envelopes
- change gain
- Fade in/out
2. Changing pitch and duration
- change pitch
- change duration
3. Reversing a sound
4. Inserting silence and cutting your sounds up
5. repairing clicks
- drawing the waveform
- repair clicks function
- caps-lock
6. Mix and add functions
IV. More advanced sound modifications
- Convolution
- Phase Vocoding
V. Plugins (filters and effects)
Project 3 | Listening examples
Below are three listening examples to use for Project 3. Choose two to make your drawings with.
WELCOME MUSI 403 Students!
This is just the initial post of the semester, and I just wanted to put something up here to get this thing going again. I have put all the paper material that I handed out in class up online. I enjoyed very much meeting all of you today and sharing in a performance of 4′33″. If you would like to go ahead and register for the site so you can post things up here too, please do. See you all Wednesday.
munger1~ and some granulation patches
munger1~ <– This package contains the files for different operating systems. Make sure you use the correct one.
1. Put the munger1~.mxo/mxe/ file in the folder Max5/Cyclying ‘74/msp-externals
2. Put the help file in msp-help folder.
Assignment: Build a patch that uses the munger object to alter live input, a sound file, or any kind of sound source.
granular patches <– This has the patches that I demonstrated on Friday plus one more for you to look at and play with.
Wave shaping patch
Here is today’s patch.
Assignment for Friday 2/6
Using the synthesis techniques of AM, FM, Ring mod, and additive, plus the patch I demonstrated today in class, develop an “instrument” in Max/MSP that you can perform using your mouse as one of the controlling elements. You may also want to set up a way to record your performance. Start simple and expand, if that helps. Or even better, come up with an idea of something you want to create and try to realize that. Starting with a good idea is always more rewarding in the end, however it can also be more frustrating. Please email the patch(es) to me before class on Friday.
Here are the patches from wed. 2/4
listening suggestions
Grace was wanting some music to listen to, so I decided to post a list of composers to check out.
- Gilles Gobeil
- Pierre Henry (music on last.fm)
These are off the top of my head…
patches and stuff to study
For Wednesday take a look at MSP tutorials 7-11, and go through the patches that I’m posting online. I think that should be good. I’ll get some reading up here for you as well, but I don’t want to give you too much to deal with.
For today’s patches I haven’t uploaded any sound files, so you will need to use files you already have. Also, I recommend trying to recreate the patches and even adding to them so that you understand what is going on.
sound file playback/record & reading
Here is the patch that I showed in class: patch 5
stuff for Friday
Okay, I resolved the problem with the first patch that I started todays class with, and everything else should be working fine. Let me know if you have any problems.