SoundHack externals for Max7 (32/64 bit macOS) – ß1

I have completed porting 7 of 11 of my previous Max externals to the Max7 format as 32/64 bit universal macOS externals. This is beta software, so if any of you would like to try them, I would enjoy feedback (error messages, crash reports) if they don’t work on your machine.

If you would like externals for earlier versions of Max – please check the freeware section of www.soundhack.com

download – soundhackm7macbeta1

Pure Data patch for John Cage’s “Williams Mix”

Paper: The Computer Music Realization of John Cage’s Williams Mix

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My current files for the performance version of John Cage’s “Williams Mix” can be downloaded here:
WilliamsMixPD201607
To run this patch, you will need the following PD externals:

– knob, within the flatgui distribution

– shuffle, within the motex distribution macos, windows and linux

– +binaural~, within the soundhack distribution (scroll down)

A sample sound file library is included here:
wmsounds
The sound file folder will need to be in the PD path. Once that is set, you can open wmmain.pd. It will seem to freeze, but it takes a while for PD to load 600 sounds into memory. If you do not have enough RAM in your computer, the piece may crash.


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To run the piece, click “Open” to open the score file, click the number corresponding to your speaker format (2, 2 binaural, 4, 6 or 8), and click play. The piece is 4:15 long. There is a button on the upper right which will “shuffle” the file choices for each subcategory. This should only be done when the score indicated the piece is “mobile”. This is my interpretation of Cage’s score as applied to this computer arrangement.

Using your own sounds
You will want to collect new sounds if you wish to create your own performance of the piece. You will want to consult Cage’s instructions for the sound collection (about 500 sounds in 6 categories are required). You will need to use 44.1k, monaural, 16 bit wave files to be compatible with this piece. Place them in folder which is in the PD search path.


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Edit wmfileopen.pd, creating a “wmtable bird2.wav” for a soundfile named bird2.wav. Repeat for each of your sound files. This may take some time!


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After this, you will need to modify the random sound selectors wmfileloadA.pd, wmfileloadB.pd, wmfileloadC.pd, wmfileloadD.pd, wmfileloadE.pd and wmfileloadF.pd. This means repopulating the selection tree for each of Cage’s 48 subcategories. The selection symbol will match the sound file name. Again, a time-consuming process.


Notes
It will take a lot of work and some PD expertise to use this computer realization of Williams Mix.

I am supplying this patch purely for educational and research purposes.