MaxForLive: Creating Your Own Audio Tools in Max For Live

For years I've been teaching Ableton Live and Max in the college classroom. As a University Professor, my classes are sought after, and, frankly, expensive. I believe Ableton Live can be learned by anyone, and cost shouldn't be a barrier. This class uses the same outline and syllabus I've used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost.

MaxForLive is a powerful tool that lets users design their own instruments, effects, and devices. It isn't without its drawbacks: MaxForLive is notoriously difficult to learn. I've developed an approach for teaching MaxForLive that focuses on teaching it like a language: You will learn small blocks and patches, understanding the how and the why along the way. As we grow our vocabulary, we "learn how to learn" more and more.

Topics include:

• The unique and quirky history and development of Max
• What we can do with MaxForLive
• Max vs. MaxForLive
• The MaxForLive Devices
• Finding and Sharing MaxForLive Devices
• Getting Help: Help Windows in MaxForLive
• Presentation Mode & Patching Modes
• The Max Editor
• Messages
• Bangs & Buttons
• Project 1: Building a MIDI Delay
• Project 2: Building an Arpeggiator
• Working with Audio Signals
• Project 3: An Audio Delay
• ~ Objects (tilde objects)
• Presentation Setup
• Controlling Live
• Abstractions
• Controlling anything in Live
• Project 4: A Beat-Quantized Randomized Filter
• Finding the Beat from Live
• Project 5: Artificial Intelligence (sort of)
• ... And much more!!!

Also included in this class are 6 of my own MaxForLive patches for you to download, dissect, use, and build on.