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Color Tracking Jitter Controls Ableton Live

Check out this video of a little Max/MSP patch that tracks the color red, translates the location info of the red object to MIDI CC and shoots it out to Ableton.

If you’re looking for a way to get started understanding Max/MSP, Jitter and the like, pureData is a great place to start. You can download pD for free here. It’s a bit more primitive than MAX, but the principles and objects are very similar; and it beats forking out the cash for Max/MSP if you’re just testing the waters.

I had the pleasure of taking a few classes in pD back in college from Miller Puckette (the author) and Tom Erbe (soundhack). Both are brilliant guys who know sound, and know programming. Even after formal classes like those, I’ve only begun to scratch the surface as to what tools like this can be harnessed for. The possibilities are near endless with regards to what you can do if you grasp object-based programming well.

Nonetheless, if you have any questions, want help with a patch, or anything along those lines, I’d be more than happy to help out. Shoot me an email and I can offer what knowledge I have, as limited as it might be.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 1st, 2009 at 8:12 pm. It is filed under wires and tagged with interface, jitter, max/msp, pd, programming, video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.