PIMA 7741
FALL 2011

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT (8-sep-2011)

1. Make Max a daily practice. Rehearse what you know in Max by opening the software every day, even if only for a few minutes, and interacting with it: make a patch, read a patch, or play with a patch. Begin to use the tools you have in max to take care of basic media playing needs: don't use Quicktime Player and iTunes, use your Max patch. Use Max in your 7010 pieces, too.

2. Begin to develop your own, personal, idiosyncratic media system for rehearsal and performance. This week, use what you know so far to make a patch that plays back audio and video, and responds to at least 10 keyboard commands. 

For example, you could make a patch that responds to the following keys:

q: load a sound file
w: play/pause the sound
e: mute (turn volume to zero)
E: turn volume to unity (127)
t: play at normal speed
y: play at half speed
u: play at 1/3 speed
Y: play at double speed
U: play at triple speed
etc...

3. Refer to the "simple math" patch from class today.
Modify the patch so that instead of always subtracting 71 from 100,
the user can set the number to be subtracted using some type of scrolling object (hint: one that outputs an integer).

4. Refer to the "math part2" patch from class today.
Modify the patch so that instead of only subtracting from 100 the leftmost message that is sent to the second inlet of the subtraction object, the numbers from all three messages are subtracted from 100; i.e., the output of the subtraction object should be = 100 - 40 - 20 - 30 = 10.