THIS MONTH’S PATCH FRIDAYS SESSION

This month we’ll be diving into the wonderful world of Max/MSP (MaxForLive), a graphical coding environment that lets you quickly and easily build your own instruments and effects with only a basic amount of knowledge.

We’ll start the session with an introduction to Max; what it is an how you can use it in your music making. Then we’ll build our very first patch! From there we’ll open up into a more informal setting where you can try out what you’ve just learned or show off something you’ve already built. Whether you’ve never heard of Max before, you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned Max veteran, all are welcome.

N.B: There are workstations provided with Ableton Live and MaxForLive installed but feel free to bring your own laptop to work as well.

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ABOUT PATCH FRIDAYS

Have you ever wanted to build your own instruments and FX, or pull together a monstrous patch on a modular synth? Perhaps you want to be able to design your own sounds using the built-in synth in your DAW or maybe even lose the DAW entirely and build a custom production rig with hardware you’ve built yourself!

Patch Friday’s is all about going deep into the world of sound design and music technology to enable you to realise the sounds in your head, or create otherworldly sounds that have never been heard before. Topics that might be covered at Patch Friday’s are fairly diverse and include things like Max/MSP & MaxForLive, modular synthesis with the free VCV Rack platform, advanced rack building with Ableton Live, hardware modular synthesis and perhaps even venturing into the realm of coding and hardware design…

Most sessions begin with a brief workshop related to the topic for that session before opening up to discussion and sharing where you will be invited to ask questions, share what you’ve been working on or spend time applying what you learned in the workshop with the help of on-hand experts.

Patch Fridays is lead by Ableton Certified Trainer Tom Glendinning aka ELPHNT who spends most of his time designing all kinds of sound making tools at his website elphnt.co.za, including Ableton Live Racks and MaxForLive devices.

We only have spaces for 12 people on each session, which you can sign up for on Eventbrite on a first-come-first-served basis when each event is announced.



