Blue Box Synth Live Pack

Designed by Tristan Heau / Produced by Julien Bayle & Design the Media
You can check the bio of Tristan at the bottom of this page and soon our our partners page.

With 70 instruments, sampler/simpler & racks for Ableton Live, Tristan packaged these 600 samples recorded especially in HIGH QUALITY for you.

YOU CAN BUY IT HERE 

If you don’t know the Blue Box Synth, if you want to use totally unusual sounds coming from uncanny and unique hardwares, this pack is made for you.

The Blue Box Synth is now totally collector.
You can find informations there on MatrixSynth website
Even the link to the official original page is DOWN.
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Xavier Niel pense différemment…

Et oui, j’écris ce message en français, dans la langue de Xavier Niel, boss de Free.

VOIR LES PRIX ET LES OFFRES ET COMMENT QUITTER VOS OPERATEURS PLUS BAS…

Penser différement permet, souvent, de se sortir des ornières creusées par les autres.
Cela permet aussi de proposer autre chose au monde, aux autres.

Cela est valable non seulement dans les affaires, mais plus généralement dans la vie.

Free a fini sa conférence de presse ce matin.
C’est notre 4ème opérateur mobile, après les ententes Etat et Orange + SFR + Bouygues et autres sortilèges sur nous, pauvres mortels dépendants des technologies numériques pourtant (et soit disant) poussées par .. l’Etat.

Jacques Attali, proposait dans ses 314 propositions pour relancer la croissance, qu’un 4ème opérateur arrive sur un marché saturé et spéculatif (OUI, si on regarde – regardait plutôt – les offres actuelles, on se rend compte qu’elles étaient plus élevées que PARTOUT ailleurs dans le monde)

ça y est.
Free est arrivé.

C’est à la fois:
- plein de services nécessaires à beaucoup pour leur travail, les liens avec leur familles, et autres (INTERNET + VOIX + MMS)
- simple
- sans engagement

L’ensemble est donc novateur, mais finalement, comme Xavier Niel le présente, c’est juste … normal à notre époque, compte tenu de la technologie actuelle et ce qu’elle coûte (les autres ne lustreront plus leurs châteaux)

Les offres 

Si on a une freebox
– pour 0€ on a 60 minutes + 60 SMS
– pour 15,99€ on a TOUT en ILLIMITÉ (internet + voix + MMS)

Si on n’a pas de freebox
– pour 2€ on a 60 minutes + 60 SMS
– pour 19,99€ on a TOUT en ILLIMITÉ (internet + voix +MMS)

Pour plus de clarté, ils séparent l’achat du mobile (financé a priori à des taux très très avantageux et plus intéressant que si l’on en prend un avec engagement chez les autres), du forfait.

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My very best OSX tools and apps

You already know I’m a computer science background guy/geek.
I always worked with Windows & Linux/Unix.

This was more an habit than a real decision.

Developing C++, HTML or other Max patch, I would have been well on any platform, considering those stuff almost platform-independant.
I mean: coding C++ in Visual Studio, Eclipse or XCode on OSX is everytime coding C++

But I needed :
- HUGE battery autonomy
- Massive RAM amount
- a platform to develop iOS stuff

The last item drives me to OSX/MacBook Pro, obviously, but the first item too.

You can check this old post about me, just before the big jump.

During those 2 months with OSX, I grabbed some necessary apps, and I wanted, today, share them with you.
You can comment and add some apps too, it would be a pleasure to make that list growing.

Here is the list :

How to use consistent paths in max standalones ?

You want to build some max standalones for both worlds : windows & mac.
You want to keep one and only one codebase.

BUT You have to use path because your patch architecture requires it.
Ok.

No problem with this tip.

Grab the patch :

———-begin_max5_patcher———-
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———–end_max5_patcher———–

Switch Max5/Max6 inside Ableton Live

This is a basic thing to know.
Very few people knows that because til now, we only used Max5 inside Live as Max for Live.

Since 3 days, Max6 is released.

I read a lot of people have been annoyed by several bugs in their Max5 (old) patches.
Here is HOW to switch Live to make it using Max5 instead of Max6 & vice versa.

I also answered there: http://www.ableton.c…ax-6-by-default

Max repatching tip

I offer this very basic but VERY time saving tip as a little video.
I want to do more videos for you in a close future.
I won’t schedule anything about that but… you’ll have videos here, on this blog (it is probably the “Follow this blog” time – click up above on the right, and you’ll be notified of new posts !)

my tracks played by SOMAFM !

I’m in the Soma FM playlists 
I’m so happy to share the place with my mentors like biosphere, monolake & all my inspiring sources!

I hope they’ll play my other tracks soon!

Pulse is a track you can listen here:

Ableton Live streamer for FREE

I just designed a max for live device in order to stream music into an Icecast2 Server.
Drop it in the master track at the end of your devices chain and … you can stream your music !
Easy & useful !

I designed it using the external by Olaf Matthes (check his website here)
I needed it because I’ll make a streaming live performance for Headphones festival on next saturday (july the 2nd)
Check LePlacard website for this event.
Check the LAB Gallery website too. It deserves to be checked

DOWNLOAD THIS PLUG IN HERE FOR FREE

First, you have to know 4 informations from the Stream Server you want to use:
- ip address is the IP address of the Icecast2 Server
- tcp port is the TCP poty of the Icecast2 Server
- filename is the name of the current stream file on the Server
- password is the password that will authorize the connection of your stream to the server

The next informations are not necessary, but VERY recommander in order to offer to listeners your informations:
- ARTIST
- PERFORMER
- DESCRIPTION
- LOCATION
- TITLE

After that, you’re ready to click on CONNECT
If all is ok and the streaming has begun: the LED becomes green.
If there is a problem, the LED stay grey.
In that case, you have to verify your network connectivity + your parameters (1/) and you have to retry

This machine is under Creative Commons License 3.0 CC-BY excepted the oggcast part by Olaf Matthes which owns its own license.

HOWTO: Find the folder path of something

A big number of people ask me about advices around Ableton Live, Max for Live & Max5.
So, I decided to publish HOW TOs about technology on this blog.
It will probably make it more alive and attractive too.

I hope you’ll like that.
I begin with a particular basic feature but an important one: how to find the absolute path of something and work with folder path a bit.
This feature is available in Max5 so, it is available in Max for Live too.
This can be VERY useful to dynamically use & process path ; for instance, you want to automatically load samples or video, or any type of files without taking care of an hardcoded path.

The path folder
Here is a basic patch/device to find the absolute path of the Max for Live device (the .amxd file). It can be used directly in Max too.

You can grab it by copy-pasting this compressed version of the patch:

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We can take benefits of it and learn about the loadbang object and some others.
It is a very nice & important object which has a particular property: it fires a “bang” message outside its only one output as soon as the patch is loaded.
It can be used:
- to initialize variables,
- to trigger things immediatly when the patch is launched (loaded, I mean)
Here, this precious object send a bang to another object we are discovering: the trigger object
I can describe this one quickly here as:
you send something in the only one input, it fires a particular number of data from its outputs.
It can involve more than one output.
Here, I send a bang (the loadbang takes care of it for me) in the input, and the trigger sends the messageset at first (the first message is ALWAYS sent at the most right placed output) and after this message, it sends the message path .

Each wire/cable are VERY useful in a graphical programming environement because we can track where a message is sent very easily!
Here, the message set is sent to a grey area and pretty object named message
This message object is useful to quickly display the result of a message flow ; I know it can be a bit confused because we talk about message object & message type of data flow.
Let’s resume: here, I send the data set to the left input of the message object.
The result of this action is: the data string in the message object is erased.
The message path is sent to the object thispatcher, a particular object representing some configuration setting of the current patch 
When the message path is sent to this object, this last one renders the current absolute path of the place where the patch is located, from the right output.

This works very fine in two case:
- inside a Max5 patch
- inside a Max for Live device

This DOESN’T work in standalone patch mode.
Two words about that:
- if you own your own license of Max5, you can edit patch & create standalone executable program (including a free runtime.
- if you don’t own Max5, you can only execute the standalone executable version and cannot edit it.

In the second case, this method doesn’t work , and you cannot find the absolute path where the standalone patch (understand the executable one)

How to find the absolute path even in the standalone executable Max5 case ?
You can use this other system that works fine.
It is directly inspired by a patch open-source I found from ??? I forget that, I’m sorry, btw it isn’t all from my brain.
This system can be copy-paste from this compressed code:

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