Course overview
Cycling 74’s Max / MSP offers a vast playground of programming opportunities to create your own musical instruments. In the course you will build a custom drum machine that features drum synthesis techniques and a step sequencer. The course aims to provide you with suitable skills to deploy drum synthesis and step sequencing in the Max MSP environment.
What you'll learn
- Deploy various drum synthesis techniques
- Apply various synthesis processing and manipulation techniques
- Construct a step sequencer for rhythmic programming
- Design a suitable UI
Who is this course for?
- Students wanting to explore common techniques for drum synthesis using MSP objects.
- Learn how to create a custom sequencer.
- Build their final drum machine concept with bpatchers.
Course content
- Lesson 1: Drum Machine Intro
- Lesson 2: Drum Voice
- Lesson 3: Drum Voice with Sequencer Part 1
- Lesson 4: Drum Voice with Sequencer Part 2
- Lesson 5: Cleaning up the patch and playing our drum machine
- Lesson 6: One Last Thing
Requirements
- A computer and internet connection
- Access to a copy of Max 8 (i.e. trial or full license)
Meet your instructor
Duncan Wilson (aka Ned Rush) is a musician, producer and content creator based in the UK. Whilst perhaps largely known for his Youtube channel, he has also released music independently as well developing content for Isotonik Studios.
Create a free account to access this course
Buy this course and own it forever
£ 20 Add to cartUseful links
Max download - Download Max | Cycling '74 (cycling74.com)