Audio Objects
FFTease is a collection of Max/MSP objects implementing various forms of spectral sound processing. These include an additive-synthesis phase vocoder, noise reduction, cross synthesis, and more unusual forms of spectral processing.
The GMEM studio in Marseille has a collection of Max/MSP signal processing and user-interface objects for panning, metering and spatialization on its research and development pages.
The externals (created by The Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST of the Zurich School of Music, Drama and Dance) are the result of research and practise using Ambisonics since 2000 and have been tested and used in numerous concerts, compositions and installations.
BasBy joining the Real-Time Application Group in the IRCAM Forum, you can get access to the Jimmies, an essential collection of high-level MSP audio building blocks by Zack Settel and Richard Dudas. But there's more: you'll also receive the amazing Spat package for live spatial processing. And that's not all: there are collections of MSP objects for formant synthesis, physical modeling, and modal to Karplus-Strong string modeling, as well as musical tools developed for composer Philippe Manoury. Forum membership also includes twice-yearly workshops and access to IRCAM's non-Max/MSP software.ed
A collection of modules for creating and processing audio in Max/MSP and manipulating video and 3D graphics using Jitter.
Includes virtual analog bandlimited waveform generators, quadraphonic panner and crossfader.
Granular Toolkit: This set of externals and abstractions developed using several granular synthesis concepts. Effects available in this download include pitch shifting, spatializing, "clouds", chord production and looping. FFTexternals: A small collection of externals used for various spectral processing. Includes objects for computing amplitude in decibels and a few complex math functions.
PeRColate is an open-source distribution of a variety of synthesis and signal processing algorithms for Max, MSP, and Nato. It is centered around a (partial) port of the Synthesis Toolkit (STK) by Perry Cook (Princeton) and Gary Scavone (Stanford CCRMA). Like the STK, it provides a fairly easy to use library of synthesis and signal processing functions (in C) that can be wired together to create conventional and unusual instruments. Also like the STK, it includes a variety of precompiled synthesis objects, including physical modeling, modal, and PhISM class instruments; the code for these instruments can serve as foundations for creating new instruments (one example, the blotar, is included) and can be used to teach elementary and advanced synthesis techniques.
Karplus-Strong, musical saw, and bowed string.
Several useful spectral analysis tools originally written by Miller Puckette. Also links to Olaf Matthes\' Windows ports of the same objects.
Convolution external for Max/MSP that performs fft-based convolution with impulse responses up to 7 seconds. Includes Universal Binary support.
A physical model of a piano string with preparations created by Dr. Stefan Bilbao and Thomas Resch. Includes Universal Binary support.
Ville Pulkki's VBAP: Vector Based Amplitude Panning
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