RE: MaxMSP looping - was: Re: Did a quick Mobius gig today :-)

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

I hesitate to promote my vaporware, but, with my apologies for that...

I've got this multitrack sw looper written in Max/MSP. Believe me, even
though the very basics of recording into a buffer are easy, turning this
into a functional, bulletproof application is a big job (unless I'm *lots*
lamer as a programmer than I believe to be true). 

But one idea I've been toying with for the release strategy for this 
product
was to open it up for extension by MAX/MSP programmers. Most of the
functionality is controlled by MAX messages which could easily be
sent/received in auxiliary modules. I'm sure that if I officially "open it
up" I will have to add more control points and adapt some code, but MAX is 
a
pretty ideal environment for this kind of extensibility. I could set up a
forum on my Web site to handle development issues.

Am I correct to infer from this discussion is that there might be interest
in such a thing? Would there be interest in participating in developing
addins for a product that was a commercial product (I have way too much 
time
invested in this project to make the core looper free, but it will be quite
affordable)? You would own your own addins, and could do with them what you
please (the web site would host links to free and commercial addins, and 
who
knows what other creative combinations could be made).

Best wishes,
Warren Sirota


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Wetterberg [mailto:awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:32 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: MaxMSP looping - was: Re: Did a quick Mobius gig 
> today :-)
> 
> 
> Per Boysen wrote:
> do you think a good price can
> > be achieved if enough people join up for a "group buy"?
> 
> They already have a quantity discount system in place, so 
> that shouldn't 
> be a problem:
> MaxMSP:
> 1-4 copies: $495.00 each
> 5-14 copies: $297.00 each
> 15-24 copies: $257.40 each
> 25-49 copies: $198.00 each
> 50-99 copies: $128.70 each
> 100+ copies: $79.20 each
> 
> Also, they have student pricing which is 250$, as far as I remember.
> 
> >> I think one possible answer to this cycle lies in the 
> flexibility of
> >> Max/MSP.
> > 
> > Seconded! I have experienced the flexibility of scripting 
> with Mobius
> > and AFAIK Max should be able to do similar things. 
> Hehe, you better believe it ;) You could even load Mobius 
> inside Max as 
> well, and use max objects to control it - fractal loopin' for 
> instance. 
> Or serialist looping - now there's an oxymoron, hehe.
> 
> > I couldn't find any statement at Cycling74's web page on 
> their plans 
> > for
> > supporting Universal Binary code (Intel Macs). Anyone know 
> about that?
> 
> Apparently it's not that far off now. I'm shooting for a 
> major release 
> this summer.
>