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Multimedia Programming Using Max/MSP and TouchDesigner

By : Patrik Lechner
Book Image

Multimedia Programming Using Max/MSP and TouchDesigner

By: Patrik Lechner

Overview of this book

Max 6 and TouchDesigner are both high-level visual programming languages based on the metaphor of connecting computational objects with patch cords. This guide will teach you how to design and build high-quality audio-visual systems in Max 6 and TouchDesigner, giving you competence in both designing and using these real-time systems. In the first few chapters, you will learn the basics of designing tools to generate audio-visual experiences through easy-to-follow instructions aimed at beginners and intermediate. Then, we combine tools such as Gen, Jitter, and TouchDesigner to work along with Max 6 to create 2D and 3D visualizations, this book provides you with tutorials based on creating generative art synchronized to audio. By the end of the book, you will be able to design and structure highly interactive, real-time systems.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Multimedia Programming Using Max/MSP and TouchDesigner
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Debugging


Finally, let's now talk about how to fix problems. You probably arrived at this section early because you ran into problems along the way. Everything presented here is quite basic, quite boring, and very important.

Smart ways to debug

It has to be said here. Everybody produces chaos sometimes. Max is great as a rapid prototyping tool, but if we want to understand our patches in two weeks or even just after taking a break, we need to keep things tidy and add comments. I can present a completely chaotic patch here as compared to a nice and tidy one, but I think you know how they look. It has been stated already that we read a lot more code than we write, so to make things simple and tidy things up. I personally often do this when I'm stuck. I don't mean when I'm really stuck, but there are moments in which one is a bit distracted or moments in which one loses interest in a problem. These are good opportunities for you to take some time to tidy up slightly. If I'm really stuck, everything...