Never seen anything like it!!!

People, I have never seen anything like the final projects that came rolling in here!  Holy,.. holy things!  Thanks for getting all geeky and really having fun with Max.  I hope you get to use Max in your work going forward and I'm glad I got to introduce the basics to you.  In the future, if you need any Max advice, I'm always happy to help and happy to see what you're working on.  Thanks everyone, it's been a terrific semester! Have an adventurous summer!!

Edith HW 5

I couldn't seem to get the sound to play with my Screencast-O-Matic. I believe that's the pro version. Well, I went with Captain America colors. And it took me a while to figure out that my wires were in the wrong outlet, so that's why I originally couldn't get the effects I wanted -_- Silly mistake. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with how it turned out. Enjoy!

Edith homework 4

Logan Smith Final

Made everything here from scratch myself, including the videos I used which were made in After Effects, and the beat on the beat video and the eerie audio on the other in FL Studio

Here it is!  It's done!  I felt a bit like a mad scientist with this one....Enjoy!!

Alexandra HW05

VIDEO LOOPER MAN

VIDEO LOOPER MAN

Brianna Homework 5

Hope you all enjoy! :-)

Lupe HW5

Edith's Keyboard

Somehow my first keyboard stayed at the one trumpet note the entire time, so I finally gave up and made a second keyboard from scratch. I added a musical theme you might recognize :) Hope you like it!

edit: I just noticed you can't hear it on the video. I will try to fix it.

I had a lot of fun with this one, I hope you enjoy.  Everyone's work looks great

Effected Video

Carlos Sanchez Jitter Video

Lupe Effected Video

Not great at this computer stuff, but it is interesting.

Final, so final.....

The day the magical musician went away....

Effected Video by Logan Smith

Jitter Effects!

A bit more fun, Happy Friday to all!

This is more fun than angry birds! Hope to fancy it up a bit more. Have a great Sunday to all!

Jitter Movies on MAX

Ok guys, so for those of you who have a PC, you'll find it a little more challenging to follow through some of the Max Tutorials. Recently, we are supposed to be following through and learning about Jitter. If you have a PC, you might wonder why the Jitter movie will not play even though you have done everything correctly. There are two possible solutions: one is from the professor himself and the other I figured out with Maax help.

1) Professor's Solution:

"I’m going to take a guess that you are set up to play AVF’s rather than QT’s…  What?  Okay, in the main menu click on Max, then Preferences.  In the window click on the “all” tab at the top so you can see all the parameters.  Scroll down to “Jitter” (you may have to expand the submenu by clicking on the triangle), and then look at the category “Video Engine” just below “Jitter”.  It should be set to “qt” not “avf”.  Change it if necessary, restart Max."

2) If solution 1 does not work, try this:

You may not have QuickTime play installed in your computer. (Quicktime is required by Max so I read) In this case, go to Apple.com and look for QuickTime Play Install options and chose the option for Windows computer (Not Mac since this is advice for PC users). Once you installed the program correctly, restart Max and I would restart your PC as well. Once it has rebooted, open up Max and try playing the Jitter movies again and everything should work just fine.

Hope that helps some of y'all!!!

Lupe Song Tutorial 20

:-)

Ayodejis Keyboard

my new electro keyboard

Still a few kinks, but giving it a go,
Happy Spring Break to all!
Be safe.....    :)

Midi on Windows 10/ PC

Hi everyone. It seems some people are having problems with the Midi playback or the "IAC Driver" during tutorial #20. To fix it just follow these steps:

1. Download "Loop Midi" and to make it easier give it a shortcut on your desktop.

2.open Loop Midi. It should look like the picture below, but i have already added a port so yours should not have "loopMIDI Port" added to the list.

3. Go ahead and make the name for your port on the bottom right hand side of the window, I underlined it in red.( I kept it the default name because i'm lazy). After changing/keeping the name, go ahead and press the plus sign at the bottom left hand corner that i underlined in blue. This should add the Port to the Input Device list in Tutorial 20.

Now i am in no way an expert in this but this made it possible to continue the lesson for me. If you have any questions about it contact the Professor. Hope that helped some of y'all out :)

Lupe's Keyboard

I don't know what happened to my sound, but...

Logan Keyboard

help guys? how do i change the iac driver bus on a windows 10? im stuck there the piano part i cant change the midi . i cant add midis cuz i cant find the settings

Lupe's Egg Timer

          Better late than never.

Carlos Keyboard

Midi Presentation

Sorry if it sounds loud... :-) Enjoy classmates!

Alex Keyboard

My Trombone Piano

Here is my video.  I realize there is no sound and I am working on fixing that.  In the mean time, it's probably best, I'm not a piano player HAHA

RIP Bob

Ayodejis' HW

"1st homework, then Netflix" Timer

I'm embarrassed to say it took me AWHILE to figure out which program was needed to record my egg timer with (I stopped the search for one I had, and resorted to downloading ScreencastOMatic). Here is my timer!

Here is my Egg Timer :)

my egg timer

http://youtu.be/Qhzxkqbbg7U?hd=1

This is my timer

Alex Fuentes' Egg Timer

Here's my egg

Devon Grigsby's "Study Timer"

I created a Study timer for my daughter

Logan Smith Egg Timer

Here's a recording of my egg timer at work.

Max Presets

Giving it a go... 

Still Working Out the Kinks

I'm not quite sure if I patched correctly. While creating my EGG TIMER, the timer keeps stopping at 10, then shuts off. I will review the videos again.

I just sent out invitations to contribute

Hey, if you're looking at this blog, you're probably in ART1383 in Spring16 semester.  If you're not, you're just plain lucky you're here.  In the first case, you should have also received an invitation to contribute to the blog.  Please accept the invitation so you can post things to the blog,

MOST NOTABLY... all you're homework.  Make a screenmovie of you demonstrating the wonderful qualities of  all your homework patchers and upload it to include it in your post.  Feel free to compliment your colleagues work or query them on how they did things.

That's the purpose of the blog.

If you don't know how to make a screenmovie, jump ahead in the Tutorials to "This One" which explains the process in detail (and mysteriously divulges future projects).

Happy Patching.

John R

Welcome to the Spring 2016 version of ART 1383

Hello and Welcome to the Spring 2016 ART 1383 class.  I'm just setting up this blog so that everyone in the class will have a place to share work, ideas, and interesting stuff they find about Max, etc.  I'll be sending each of you an invitation to be an "Author" on this blog, so look for that email.  It will be sent to the address you have listed with the University of Houston, so please make sure that address is correct AND that you check that account regularly.

If you can only see "Week 0" under the Content section of Blackboard (Bb), then the first week's course material isn't available.  It will definitely be available on January 19th, for all you eager beagles out there.

More to come.