phasor~

This patch demonstrates a few different ways of reading audio from buffer~.

The buffer~ object can hold any audio data—or, for that matter, any collection of floating-point numbers. Most often it's used for audio playback, but it can also store a curve of any desired shape, to be used as a control signal. In this example, it will be used to store a control signal that will influence the pitch of an oscillator. The replace message to buffer~ will load in data from a sound file.

One way to make video respond to audio in Max, is to detect some significant event in an MSP audio signal, and use that to trigger something in Jitter. This patch demonstrates one case of that. It uses an event in an audio stream to trigger the display of a frame of a movie. Every time the phasor~ jumps down to 0, a bang is sent to the jit.qt.movie causing it to display the current frame of the movie loaded into it.

This patch shows different ways to receive and generate numerical values using MaxMSP. 

This patch demonstrates a method for playing a stream of sound grains randomly chosen from a sound file.

This patch demonstrates several capabilities, features, and techniques of the transport object for managing tempo-relative time, the translate object for converting between tempo-relative time and absolute time values, and the timing objects that can use tempo-relative timing such as metro, delay, timepoint, phasor~, and line~.

Two oscillators, one in the left channel and one in the right channel, play notes that have a continuously changing frequency, at a continuously changing note rate. Every few seconds (some randomly-chosen number of seconds from 2 to 8) each of the two oscillators gets a new destination frequency and destination note rate, and heads toward those destination values over the next few (randomly-chosen number of) seconds.

This patch demonstrates the sound of linear and exponential changes in pitch and amplitude.

Here are a few behaviors of the cycle~ object worth knowing.

To sync an LFO to the onset of a note, drive it with a phasor~ object. Send a phase value of "0" into the right inlet of phasor~ when the note starts, as seen in this example.