MSP Recipes
Here is a collection of MSP patches you may find useful in your daily life.
Please consider adding your own patches to the recipe book. You can add to the recipe pages by adding your own code snippets using the <maxcode> tag described in the Editing Quickstart page, or you can include a link to a patch posted to the Max Forum (if you post a link to the Forum, future readers can also see the discussion that generated the patch, too).
Contents
Audio Effects[edit]
Delay-based Mangling[edit]
This is a gen~ patch, that uses a variable delay to interesting effect. The main patch:
<maxpat>
begin_max5_patcher----------
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end_max5_patcher-----------
</maxpat>
And the gen~ patch:
<maxpat>
begin_max5_patcher----------
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end_max5_patcher-----------
</maxpat>
Vocoder[edit]
A pfft~ patch to implement a surprisingly effective vocoder:
<maxpat>
begin_max5_patcher----------
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end_max5_patcher-----------
</maxpat>
Taken from this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4feOFLX6238
Distortion[edit]
Valve Distortion: http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=37463
Waveshaping Distortion: http://cycling74.com/toolbox/stkr-waveshaping/
DC Offset Distortion: http://www.cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=85#post-475
Flanger[edit]
MXR Style Flanger: http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=44089
Synth Components[edit]
Oscillators[edit]
Waveguide: http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=37604
SuperSaw: http://www.cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=5546
SuperSaw (gen~ implementation): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hO4AggFwrg
Gendy: http://cycling74.com/toolbox/sc-max-windows-port-of-some-supercollider-ugens-to-maxmsp/
PAD 21 (gen~ implementation): http://cycling74.com/2012/02/06/gen-patch-a-day/4/
Karplus-Strong Plucked String: http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=31829
