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Delay Sound Player for Max/MSP: Lets you delay the start of a playback sound file using custom times

By Jaems • Jun 11th, 2009 • Category: Software

We’re used to cameras and video cameras having a timer function, but sometimes it’s useful to put the start of a sound file on a timer. Delay Sound Player let’s you do just that. It’s like having a timer function for sound file playback. The patch is simple: drag and drop your file into the [...]



Tilt2Joystick: play games by tipping your laptop in different directions

By Jaems • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Software

Tilt2Joystick is a revolutionary application that allows users to tip and tilt their laptops to play games, draw, scroll, and press any number of configurable keys for use in any application.  With Tilt2Joystick, you can use your entire laptop like a joystick controller. Who says iPhone owners should have all the fun?  Tilt2Joystick is lightweight [...]



Key Display for Max/MSP: Displays real name of pressed keys, including named keys such as Tab and Enter

By Jaems • May 19th, 2009 • Category: Software

This patch allows you to display the real name of user-entered key presses. Instead of ASCII value or Key Code, you can choose to display the real name of the key. This patch solves the problem of keys requiring names such as Tab, Enter, Space, Return, Delete, Page Down, Page Up, all the arrow keys [...]



TapNTune updated to version 1.3

By Jaems • Apr 25th, 2009 • Category: Software

Download TapNTune 1.3 (9.2 mb dmg) This update fixes some problems with the tuner’s input. This fix will mostly affect users with “clean input”, such as keyboard or guitar players who use a jack. In addition, the application icon has been fixed so that users can click in the middle of the notes in icon view [...]



Adding keystroke functionality to a Midi keyboard using Max and the aka.keyboard object

By Jaems • Apr 23rd, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

I’ve discussed the great aka objects in another post that dealt with using the Sudden Motion Sensor of the Macbook to control a game of Pacman [link]. This post will deal with the aka.keyboard object and how to use it to add keystroke functionality to a Midi keyboard. This would be useful in situations where you [...]



How to download and view the complete works of Bach on a Macintosh

By Jaems • Apr 17th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

I have recently discovered that the complete contents of the Bach-Gesellschaft, containing all the published works of Bach, are availablle online. Wikipedia lists three sources, one of them has PDF files, but the link is busted, hacked, or both.  The other resource is located at the IMSLP, but the files are listed separately, and the user [...]