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One way to combine text and video is to write text in jit.lcd as demonstrated in the example “Draw shapes and text

Whenever the time interval of a metro object is specified using tempo-relative time units such as note values, the operation of that metro will be governed by the transport.

This example combines seven pre-recorded saxophone sounds, slowly modulating several aspects of their playback to create an ever-changing mix.

Did you know that there are several different ways to turn MSP audio on and off in Max?

This shows how to prepare multiple sound cues for playback, and how to detect specific keystrokes in order to trigger the sound cues. It also shows how to initialize a program by triggering certain messages as soon as the patch is opened. The sound signal is sent through a multiplier to adjust the gain (volume).

When you’re trying to synchronize musical events to a timeline, it’s sometimes useful to have a metronome that tells you where the computer thinks the beat is. The metronome makes a percussive sound on each beat, and ideally makes a unique sound on the first beat of each measure. Most DAW and MIDI sequencing programs have such a feature.

This example consists of a .zip archive of files. Together they demonstrate the idea of organizing one’s sound files in a specific folder, and then using the full path to that folder to ensure finding the sound files when you want to play them.

Synthesizing a sinusoid in MSP is a fairly trivial matter, because the cycle~ object does most of the work for you. It produces a full-amplitude waveform at the requested frequency ƒ and with the requested phase offset φ.

To ensure finding a file (regardless of any File Preferences… settings in Max) you may need to provide the entire path to the file in the hierarchical file system: volume name, folder name(s), and file name. This example shows how you can construct such a full path.

An oscillator is an electronic circuit that generates a cyclic (periodically repeating) signal.