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Crash report

How to find a Mac OS crash report for Max

By Sam at Cycling 74

“You just need to open Console, disclose ~/Library/Logs, disclose DiagnosticReports, right click on the crash report from Max and click Reveal in Finder.”

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Max core audio drivers

Normal core audio verses ad_portaudio core audio

Solved an issue with Maxradio project – when using soft66lc2 which delivers baseband samples to Max via audio input – the bandwidth was only half of what it should be – I switched back from ad_portaudio to default core audio drivers and everything was fine.

The real mystery now is why the fun cube pro+ doesn’t run in Max when using default core audio drivers?

 

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Osc-ruby wildcard matching

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The method for wildcard matching of address patterns in the osc-ruby gem has changed with upgrades to ruby 2.x

This broke the Web Audio Playground project where OSC messages get passed from Max  via Ruby via web sockets to the Web Browser.

You can use nil now for wildcard address pattern matching:

@osc_server.add_method nil do | message |

This matches every OSC message.

For more information the Web Audio Playground project, see this post: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=6193

 

 

 

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ep-4xx13 DSP – week 14

Internet of things (IoT)

Big Data http://www.zdnet.com/big-data-an-overview-7000020785/ is about finding patterns in data. The IoT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things  allows you to make your own patterns by combining data from many sources.

Examples

Observations

  • Moral implications of ubiquitous tracking
  • A field of opportunities – connect
  • Sonification
    • parameter mapping
    • earcons
    • alarms

 Review

  1. Future music tools
  2. DSP with Max and Ableton Live
  3. Microscopic – granular synthesis
  4. Lego signals – Convolution in the frequency domain
  5. Reverse engineering, prototyping, portfolios
  6. Ideas – RJDJ environmental soundscape
  7. Sensors – cars, guitars, Csound
  8. Reversibility
  9. Artists – projects
  10. –
  11. Music from the past. Internet API’s
  12. Mashups. Twitter + Max + Ruby, maps
  13. Radio waves – wrong tools
  14. Internet of Things
  15. Underwater acoustics

more about DSP

  • Google
  • Try this blog…
  • Programming (book recommendations:)
    • Curtis Roads
    • Eric Lyon
    • Dr.B
  • Software
    • Max/Pd/Csound
    • Open source projects (Web Audio API)
    • Matlab
  • Schools
  • DSP Jobs
    • (Examples from Berklee Music Network)
    • freelance work, collaboration

Topics not covered

  • programming
  • math
  • Video, graphics, optics
  • Statistics
  • Generative art
  • fiter design, impulse responses, convolution in the time domain
  • plugin design
  • Csound
  • Radar
  • Medical
  • Communciations
  • Information theory

Success

  • memory + creative confidence
  • persistence and habit
  • know yourself
  • make connections
  • save your ideas

tricks

  • Extremes – try doing way more or way less in some way, opposites, black humor
  • Abstraction – make the tool that makes something
  • Use the wrong tools
  • connect things
  • find mentors and partners
  • feed your imagination
  • start where others leave off
  • Use the entire piano