Max courses & meetups - Music Hackspace

Music Hackspace is the education partner of Cycling ’74 and we deliver live workshops every month to get you started and continue to learn Max.

Entry level courses

Getting started with Max - On Demand...
Getting started with Max - On Demand

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Phelan Kane
- Understand the Max environmentUnderstand the TDAbleton tool
- Connect building blocks together and work with data
- Master the user interface
- Work with your MIDI instruments
FREE
- Just Curious
Getting Started with Max - March Series...
Getting Started with Max - March Series

Single live workshop
Taught by: Phelan Kane
- Understand the Max environment
- Connect building blocks together and work with data
- Master the user interface
- Work with your MIDI instruments
FREE
- Just Curious
Discover the new features in Max for Live 11...
Discover the new features in Max for Live 11

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Mark Towers
- Explore new MPE possibilities
- Utilise the new devices
- Identify the new integrations and objects
- Understand and deploy the new features for developers
FREE
- Just Curious
Sampling with Max...
Sampling with Max

Single live workshop
Taught by: Ned Rush
- Load, play and process samples using the playlist~ object.
- Get deeper into patching with samples using the buffer~ and groove~ objects.
- Explore ways to record audio in realtime with the record~ object.
FREE
- Just Curious
Live Sample Mangling in Max 8...
Live Sample Mangling in Max 8

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Ned Rush
- In this 2-hour workshop you will learn ways to sample and loop incoming audio from the outside world. You will create a fresh sonic palette from mutating the sound, using a variety of techniques aimed at performance and improvisation, whilst also discussing and solving problems related to improvisation set-ups and how we can meet those needs.
- You will explore a variety of ways to interact with sampled sound to find which method suits you best so you can realise your vision with a unique performance sampler.
£ 9.9
- Getting Started
Algorithmic Composition in Max: Bringing Orde...
Algorithmic Composition in Max: Bringing Order to Chaos

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Sam Pearce-Davies
- In this workshop you will learn a variety of algorithmic processes and useful tools to construct your own systems: including drunken walks, list manipulation and step-sequencer pattern generation. Primarily focusing on MIDI-controlled instruments, you will gain an understanding of how chance can be factored into numerous aspects of composition, from melody and harmony to overall piece structure and instrumentation.
- By the end of the workshop you will have built a system for algorithmically generating a short multi-instrumental composition which you will be able to go on to improve and expand upon to fit your own preferences.
£ 9.9
- Going Deeper
Building Audio FX with Max...
Building Audio FX with Max

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Phelan Kane
- Identify key MSP objects for audio FX devices
- Build delay line audio FX devices with feedback networks
- Build filter networks for use in audio FX devices
- Add LFO networks for use in Flanger and Chorus audio FX devices
£ 9.9
- Going Deeper
Synthesis with Max: FM...
Synthesis with Max: FM

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Ned Rush
- Build FM carrier and modulators via MSP oscillator objects
- Explore FM’s spectral sonic properties
- Construct modulation sources for FM synthesis devices
- Define the sonic timbre and strengths and weakness of FM synthesis
£ 9.9
- Getting Started
Build samplers with Max...
Build samplers with Max

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Phelan Kane
- Identify key MSP objects for sampler devices
- Utilise buffer and waveform objects
- Build single cycle waveform sampler devices
- Build loop based sampler devices
£ 9.9
- Getting Started
Getting Started With Audio FX In Max...
Getting Started With Audio FX In Max

Single live workshop
Taught by: Massimiliano Cerioni
- Workshop 1: Utilize audio FX objects in Max
- Workshop 1: Configure objects for audio FX use
- Workshop 1: Build signal flow for audio FX in Max
- Workshop 1: Use a bitcrusher audio FX in Max
- Workshop 2: Patch singla flow for multiple audio FX in Max
- Workshop 2: Use a comb filter FX in Max
- Workshop 2: Assign parameters to controllers and build presets
- Workshop 2: Creatively deploy audio FX in Max
FREE
- Just Curious
Max and Machine Learning with RunwayML - On-d...
Max and Machine Learning with RunwayML - On-demand

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Marco Accardi
- Understand the RunwayML workflow
- Use Node4Max to control RunwayML and generate a video
- Explore ML trendy models
- Create a Dataset
- Train a ML model
- Process videos with the VIZZIE library
£ 49
- Going Deeper
Getting Confident with Gen~...
Getting Confident with Gen~

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Phelan Kane
- Become familiar with the Gen~ environment
- Build various audio processing tools via Gen~ (i.e. delay FX, AM and FM tools)
- Construct basic Gen~ sampling and synthesis tools
- Apply a myriad of Gen~ operators
£ 29.9
- Going Deeper
Experimental Audio FX in Max...
Experimental Audio FX in Max

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Ned Rush
- Identify key MSP objects for building delay FX devices
- Build delay line audio FX devices via buffer, record and groove
- Build feedback and processing networks
- Explore UI concepts and design
£ 9.9
- Getting Started
An Introduction to Synthesis with Max...
An Introduction to Synthesis with Max

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Phelan Kane
- Cycling 74’s Max / MSP offers a vast playground of programming opportunities to create your own synthesis devices. In this workshop you will begin to build your own synthesis devices. This workshop aims to provide you with suitable skills to begin exploring synthesis devices in the Max MSP environment.
£ 9.9
- Getting Started
Getting started with MSP...
Getting started with MSP

Live workshop series
Taught by: Phelan Kane
£ 29.9
- Getting Started
Sale!
Getting Started with Max For Live...
Getting Started with Max For Live

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Phelan Kane
- Lesson 1: Become familiar with the M4L landscape, Explore pre-built M4L devices that come with Live Suite, Locate and utilise M4L tutorials that come with Live Suite, Identify third party M4L content.
- Lesson 2: Create objects and route patch cables, Construct user interfaces in M4L, Build MIDI step sequencers in M4L, Explore further possibilities within Max For Live.
£ 9.9
- Getting Started
Splatterbox - On-demand...
Splatterbox - On-demand

On-demand workshop
Taught by: James Wilkie
- Build a custom loop station
- Explore post processing and loop manipulations for unique soundscapes and performances
- Build loops and samples in real time
£ 9.9
- Getting Started
Getting started with MSP...
Getting started with MSP
Taught by: Phelan Kane
£ 29.9
Digital Windchimes / An Introduction to Gener...
Digital Windchimes / An Introduction to Generative Music

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Samuel Pearce Davies
- In this workshop you will learn to create such a system in Max/MSP, building a simple synthesised bell-like sound with variable timbre which will then be ‘played’ by a loose algorithm that you will construct. This will involve learning a form of subtractive synthesis using a bank of resonant filters, applying variable controls to both its generation and post-processing through reverb and delay, and finally using combinations of random number generators to make digital ‘wind’.
£ 9.9
- Getting Started
Sale!
Build your own modular synth with MSP...
Build your own modular synth with MSP

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Ned Rush
- Build oscillator and filter networks with MSP objects
- Build modulation patches with MSP objects
- Build step sequencers with Max and MSP objects
- Explore use of signal routing in interesting and creative ways using MSP objects
- Build custom modules using UI objects and bpatchers
£ 29.9
- Getting Started
Getting confident with Max - On demand...
Getting confident with Max - On demand

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Ned Rush
- Confidently navigate the Max environment to quickly gain access to content and learning resources
- Deploy resources into a patch
- Connect and explore these resources to develop ideas for sound and media design, composition and performanceNavigate the help file system and reverse engineer existing content in the Max application
£ 29.9
- Getting Started
Scripting and Live-Coding Max with Scheme for...
Scripting and Live-Coding Max with Scheme for Max - On-demand

On-demand workshop
Taught by: Iain Duncan
- Create interactive patches and programs with the s4m object
- Automate patches by sending messages and scripting in Scheme
- Create sequence playback functions and interact with the Max transport and scheduler
- Create live coding objects in Scheme
- Know how to keep learning Scheme with further online resources
£ 7.9
- Going Deeper

Sound Synthesis

Advanced courses

Jitter

Expert presentations