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You're reading from Multimedia Programming Using Max/MSP and TouchDesigner Design, build, and refine immersive audio-visual apps and performance environments

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781849699716

Length 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Web Design

Author (1):

Patrik Lechner

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Max FREE CHAPTER

2. Max Setup and Basics

3. Advanced Programming Techniques in Max

4. Basic Audio in Max/MSP

5. Advanced Audio in Max/MSP

6. Low-level Patching in Gen

7. Video in Max/Jitter

8. Max for Live

9. Basic Visualization Using TouchDesigner

10. Advanced Visualization Using TouchDesigner

11. 3D Rendering and Examples

12. Connecting Our Software to the World

Index

How to get help

There are several resources that offer help in TouchDesigner. First and foremost, there is the Wiki, which can be accessed from within TouchDesigner, along with the forum and the tutorials. There are lots of video tutorials online too. Finally, there are the operator snippets. Accessible via the Help menu in TD, we can find examples of how different operators work and start using these right away. If you are lost while finding help on 3D or procedural modeling, look into other environments' tutorials too, or look for more general information about 3D, OpenGL, or modeling techniques. Since we are modeling procedurally in TD, and TouchDesigner is a derivative of a SideFX software called Houdini, you might also look at Houdini's video tutorials on modeling. Houdini and TouchDesigner don't work exactly the same, but they have many things in common, and we can adopt many techniques documented rather for Houdini users.

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Authors (1)

Patrik Lechner

Patrik Lechner started making electronic music at the age of 16, and soon discovered environments such as Pure Data and Max/MSP. From then on, he developed many tools for his own experimental music, and it wasn't long after this that he started creating generative 3D visualizations of audio material. Since then, he has devoted nearly all his life to real-time audio/video processing and generation. Patrik worked as an audio engineer for an Austrian TV station for years, and taught Max/MSP both privately and at institutions. For instance, he conducted workshops for the audio engineers of the Burgtheater Vienna, and since 2012, he has been working for the University of Applied Sciences in St. Plten (FH St. Plten). Patrik has worked on many multimedia projects, for example, an installation at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden for the Institut fr Creative\Media/Technologies, FH St. Plten, and an interactive audio installation in Dubai. As an artist, he did audiovisual performances in Austria, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Canada, and Dubai, and regularly played at the Austrian Pavilion at the world exhibition in Shanghai 2010. He worked a lot with classically trained musicians, developed a real-time scoring system/piece for a string quartet that premiered in 2012, and frequently works with painters and artists from other fields.

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