Multimedia Programming Using Max/MSP and TouchDesigner -- Table of Contents -- Multimedia Programming Using Max/MSP and TouchDesigner -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Max -- Understanding the basic concepts of Max -- Modular basis for expressions -- When to use Max -- Max - the message domain -- Max Signal Processing -- Jitter, Matrix, and video processing -- Jitter data format -- Summary -- Exercises -- 2. Max Setup and Basics -- Setting things up -- Getting help -- The Max-integrated help system -- The forums -- Externals -- Other resources -- Setting up Max -- The audio status window -- Setting up MIDI -- Other preferences -- Object defaults -- File preferences -- Installing externals -- Other setup tips -- Organizing finished code -- Abstractions -- Extras -- Clippings -- Packages -- Projects -- Prototypes -- Basic Max patching and GUI -- Objects in Max -- Arguments -- Attributes -- Creating our Hello World program -- Dissection and construction -- Contents -- The [print] object -- The message box -- The MSP-Hello World -- A quick overview of GUI -- Summary -- 3. Advanced Programming Techniques in Max -- Introducing the synthesizer example -- Initializing a patcher -- Excursus of microscopic timing and message ordering -- A bpatcher for MIDI input -- Sending and receiving data -- The #n notation -- Collections of data -- More message box magic -- Structuring our patches -- The pattr family - a communication system.

Timing in Max -- The event priority -- Debugging -- Smart ways to debug -- The debugger -- Optimizing -- Scripting and the this patcher -- Summary -- 4. Basic Audio in Max/MSP -- Basic audio principles -- Audio synthesis -- Amplitude modulation -- Ring modulation versus amplitude modulation -- Tremolo -- Feedback -- Frequency modulation -- Controlling FM -- Feedback -- Phase modulation -- The poly~ object -- Managing instances and patcher loading -- Polyphony and voice allocation -- Additive synthesis -- Discrete Summation Formulae -- Subtractive synthesis and filtering -- The classic approach -- Building an equalizer -- The filter theory: an introduction -- Waveshaping -- Sampling and audio file playback -- Mixing and signal routing -- Conventional mixing -- Summary -- 5. Advanced Audio in Max/MSP -- More sampling -- Granular sampling -- FX -- Stutter -- Dynamics -- Noise gate -- Working with expanders -- Limiter -- Compressor -- Reverberation -- Poly as a cascade -- Convolution -- Taking a room's impulse response -- FFT -- Drawing a signal's spectrum -- Simple convolution -- An FFT filter -- Spectral reverb and freezing -- Recording and playback of FFT data -- Transient detection -- Sample-accurate sequencing -- Summary -- 6. Low-level Patching in Gen -- Introducing Gen -- The Gen workspace -- Exploring the differences between Max and Gen -- Parameters through param -- Buffers and data -- Subpatchers and abstraction inside Gen -- Genexpr and the CodeBox -- Efficiency -- Examples -- The Karplus-Strong synthesis -- A mass-spring system -- Waveguides and scattering junctions -- Further reading -- Summary -- 7. Video in Max/Jitter -- Inputting and outputting Jitter data -- Getting started with the Jitter matrix -- Matrix processing -- Feedback and delay -- Using OpenGL in Jitter -- Geometry manipulation -- Shaders and FX -- Summary -- 8. Max for Live.

Introducing the fundamentals of Max for Live -- MIDI in/out -- Audio in/out -- Synchronization -- Parameters and saving -- The Live API -- An example device - a parameter modulator -- Summary -- 9. Basic Visualization Using TouchDesigner -- The need for TouchDesigner -- How to get help -- Basics and UI of TouchDesigner -- A scripting prologue -- Hello World -- COMPs -- TOPs -- CHOPs -- SOPs -- MATs -- DATs -- The operators -- The viewer flag -- The clone immune flag -- The cooking flag -- The bypass flag -- The lock flag -- The viewer active flag -- The parameter dialog -- Wires and links -- The select OP -- A closer look at timeslicing, CHOPs, and exporting -- Panes -- Components - structuring a project -- Where am I? -- Creating our first UI -- Hierarchy -- Abstraction -- Palette -- Local -- Clones -- What's happening in root? -- Assign a text editor to TouchDesigner -- Summary -- 10. Advanced Visualization Using TouchDesigner -- The basic audio-reactive video -- A 2D composting example -- Replicator COMP -- The me.digits expression as a way to individualize replicants -- Connecting Max and TD -- A component for lots of movies -- Converting between OP families -- Dealing with time -- The Animation component -- Using the animation COMP for nonlinear purposes -- Synchronization -- SMPTE LTC -- Audio ramp -- UDP -- Introducing 3D rendering -- SOPs -- Assigning a material -- The data inside SOPs -- Summary -- 11. 3D Rendering and Examples -- Interactive and non-procedural tools -- The geometry viewer -- Grouping by selection -- The Modeler -- The Geo COMP -- Instancing -- Camera, light, and shading -- Cameras -- A camera path -- Cut and blend -- Fog and FOV -- Lights and shadows -- Materials -- Transparency -- Render passes -- Render picking and 3D GUIs -- Examples of procedural modeling -- A speaker -- Structure -- Modeling -- Rendering.

A waterfall plot -- Structure -- Modeling -- A fractal texture -- Modeling -- Liquid -- Structure -- Modeling -- Rendering -- A house in a landscape -- Structure -- Modeling -- Rendering -- Summary -- 12. Connecting Our Software to the World -- Analog synths and control voltage -- Arduino and microcontrollers -- An Arduino example project -- Hardware requirements for the Arduino project -- The Arduino code -- Pure Data -- Multi-touch screens -- The TUIO protocol -- Interfacing other programs -- Open Sound Control (OSC) -- MIDI -- Keystrokes and simulated user activity -- Audio and video -- Multispeaker setups -- Exhibitions -- Exporting an application -- Customizing an application -- Collaborative work -- Summary -- Index.