A modular kit providing high-level sound generation, processing and performance tools for students of Music 264 at Harvard University.
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If you have previously installed a copy of 264 Tools, delete it from your Max Packages directory.
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Download the latest release (click ‘Source code’ under Downloads)
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Uncompress your download to your Max Packages directory.
You can find this under~/Documents/Max/Packages
for Max 6 or~/Documents/Max 7/Packages
for Max 7.
You should end up with file paths that look like~/Documents/Max/Packages/264-tools/ALL-THE-FILES-GO-HERE
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Open (or restart) Max.
Alternatively if you prefer using the command line:
# move to your packages directory
cd ~/Documents/Max/Packages
# download 264 Tools to your packages directory
git clone https://github.com/mus264/264-tools.git
After you have installed 264 Tools, open Max’s Extras menu to find 264 Tools > 264 Tools Overview for an introduction to the various modules.
From Max’s Extras menu, select 264 Tools > Check for Updates. This will let you know if you need to update. (You will need to be connected to the internet for this to work.)
The toolkit currently includes the following modules, which should be loaded in a bpatcher
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264.sfplay~
— a simple sound file player264.sfrecord~
— a monophonic sound file recorder
264.delay~
— a single, flexible delay line264.filter~
— a highpass, lowpass or bandpass filter264.grains~
— a live audio granulation module264.ringmod~
— modulate a signal with a single frequency oscillator264.reverb~
— a basic reverb module264.transpose~
— a pitch shifter with 3 octave range above & below source264.freeze~
— a spectral audio freezer264.loop~
— a buffer-based loop recorder and manipulator264.limit~
— a no-options audio limiter (implementingomx.peaklim~
)264.gate~
— an amplitude gate
264.envelope~
— an envelope follower compatible with other modules264.pitchtrack~
— a fundamental frequency tracker264.trigger~
— an attack detector
264.audiotest~
— display audio status & test loudspeakers
264.midi-learn
— a utility permitting quick linking of inputs with a MIDI controller264.tog
— a MIDI-ready toggle switch264.go!
— a MIDI-ready button264.midi-presets
— manage mapping presets between your MIDI controller and264.midi-learn
objects264.audio-presets
— manage presets for parameters across 264 Tools modules264.fullscreen
— toggle a patch to display fullscreen264.lockstatus
— check if a patch is currently locked
These modules have been tested with Max 6 and 7. They will not work with Max/MSP 5 or lower. Please report bugs under the issues tab above.
264.grains~
relies on the munger~
granulation external, which has a substantial ancestry including work by Ivica Ico Bukvic, Ji-Sun Kim, Dan Trueman, and R. Luke DuBois, most recently for percolate.
264.midi-presets
, 264.audio-presets
, 264.sfplay~
, and 264.sfrecord~
rely on Patrick Delges’s filesys
Java class to manage file locations.
The 264.reverb~
core is heavily based on Randy Jones’s yafr2
example.
264.pitchtrack~
is built around the sigmund~
sinusoidal analysis and pitch tracking external, originally developed by Miller Puckette, ported to Max/MSP by Miller Puckette, Cort Lippe & Ted Apel. Included here is Volker Böhm’s 64-bit version.
264.freeze~
relies on Jean-François Charles’s spectral freezing patches.
264.loop~
is built around Rodrigo Constanzo & raja’s amazing karma~
, which is Copyright © 2015, Rodrigo Constanzo All rights reserved. Please see the module for detailed redistribution information.
This software is free to use, modify, and redistribute under a GNU General Public License.