David Zicarelli: Fun with Complexity using MC in Max

Making and controlling complex sounds on a computer where hundreds of events are happening simultaneously can be hard work. Aren’t computers supposed to make doing complex things easier? Max has a new feature called MC that can make it fun and easy to work with large numbers of simultaneous events and audio channels. You don’t need a multichannel audio system to play with MC. All the examples shown work in mono or stereo.
About David Zicarelli
David is the founder and CEO of Cycling’74, makers of Max. David founded Cycling’74 in 1997 to commercialise Max, a programming language that had been invented at IRCAM in 1985, and licensed to Opcode for commercialisation in 1989. David worked then at Opcode and acquired the publishing rights to the software in 1997. Max grew an audience in more than 3 decades, in education and as a tool for artists. In 2007, Ableton and Cycling’74 announced Max for Live, the integration of Max into Live, allowing Ableton Live users to use Max patches in their workflow. Cycling’74 was then acquired by Ableton in 2017, and Max for Live is seeing a lot of improvements since, opening up possibilities for long time Max users to find new audiences among the Live user base.

[@gennaroschiano8085]

This helped me sort out my problems using MC and polyphony! Thanks for having such a cool platform. Bless up.

[@MusicHackspace]

The patches used in this session are available here: www.dropbox.com/s/zdwsj685bdp2s8g/musichackspace_mc_patches.zip?dl=0

[@lysdexic4160]

Always looking to learn new things about MC~

[@arneherrmann9666]

0:00 Intro
7:12 Deviate (1stPatch)
9:18 Dreamshift (2ndPatch)
15:01 Retune (3rdPatch)
22:22 Resonant Filter (4thPatch)
31:33 Train (5thPatch)
43:43 Presenting Granulart
50:21 Intro to Questions
56:01 Voice Control with Multislider (1st question)
56:50 Polysynth with MC (2nd question)
1:00:00 develop MC in Max SDK (3rd question)
1:02:55 MC.poly~? (4th question)
1:07:30 Spatialize individually in MC (...)
1:12:21 MIDI 2.0
1:16:15 Next Paradigm Shift (MC.gen)
1:22:28 MC.DAC~ 1000 (1000 speaker)?
1:25:00 Outro

[@push2push435]

Thank you @Arne !

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love your work!!

[@simonhalsberghe4830]

'dad, that's messed up' had me rofl

[@ballefranz7059]

22:55 nice!

[@torsionaudio]

The link to patches posted in the live comments doesn't work. Is it possible to re-post the link? Thanks!

[@sophiasagaradze1788]

Can we still have access to the patches?

[@spicycode2495]

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[@spicycode2495]

Anything you develop in Max Msp (gen) belongs to David.

[@TR-707]

i love how sound guys always have the worst sound levels