This page contains links to explanations and example Max patches that are intended to give instruction on some basic concepts of interactive arts programming using Max/MSP and Jitter.
The examples were written for use by students in the Interactive Arts Programming course at UCI, and are made available on the WWW for all interested Max/MSP/Jitter users and instructors. If you use the text or examples provided here, please give due credit to the author, Christopher Dobrian.
There are also some examples from the previous years' classes available on the Web: MSP examples and Jitter examples from 2004's class, and some other examples from 2005's class.
You can find even more MSP examples on the professor's web page for Music 147: Computer Audio and Music Programming.
And you can find still more Max/MSP/Jitter examples from the Summer 2005 COSMOS course on "Computer Music and Computer Graphics".
[Click on an image below for a text version of the actual Max patch.]
April 5, 2006
Simplest MIDI file player
Simple MIDI file player
Simplest audio file player
Simple audio file player
Simplest video file player
Simple video file player
April 10, 2006
Play a chromatic scale with MIDI
Make a linear crescendo with MIDI
A-B video switch
A-B video switcher (using gate)
Scrub through a video file
April 12, 2006
A-B audio switcher (using selector~)
too simple amplitude control (show clicks)
simple amplitude control (smooth change, no clicks)
A-B video crossfade
simple audio file player 2 (using number~)
simple audio file player 3 (using gain~)
A-B audio crossfade 1
xfade~ (a useful subpatch)
A-B audio crossfade 2 (using the xfade~ subpatch)
April 17, 2006
constrained randomness
detect an event and trigger another event
minimalist loops
April 19, 2006
check the current position of a movie
random 1-second movie excerpts
April 26, 2006
check the length of a movie
leap to a randomly chosen frame of a movie
objects that access an audio buffer
windowing an audio stream
looping a fragment of audio
start processes using loadbang
choose one of three movies
play one of three movies
May 1, 2006
periodicity in Max and MSP
8 timed stripes of color
play chunks of a movie
simple Go board in Jitter
May 3, 2006
rangeslider demo
umenu demo
May 22 and 24, 2006
The following three image files will be necessary to make some of the patches below work. Download these files to the same folder as you download the patches.
getting the mouse position
mousing demo
paint colored lines
dimension demo
sprite demo
subtitle demo
make a mask image
mask by multiplication
mask by alphablend
lumakey demo
chromakey demo
This page was last modified May 24, 2006.
Christopher Dobrian
dobrian@uci.edu