Graham WakefieldGenerating Sound & Organizing Time: Thinking With gen~ Book 1

Graham Wakefield Generating Sound & Organizing Time:

From Graham Wakefield and Gregory Taylor, Generating Sound & Organizing Time provides a holistic overview for creating audio effects and sound generators with Max/MSP's gen~ environment. GSO is an illuminating read that de-mystifies the experience of patching with gen~. Unlike using standard MSP audio objects in Max, gen~ operates on a single sample basis, offering a lower-level way to program everything from delays and filters to oscillators, sequencers, granular synthesizers, and more. However, the familiar patching workflow of Max remains the same, connecting functional blocks of code with patch cables not unlike a modular synthesizer.

Covering a wide range of topics, GSO begins by introducing frameworks to shape and manipulate musical events over time, serving as the foundation for rhythm generators, sequencers, and more. The book continues to build on these fundamental concepts, illustrating how blocks of code may be totally repurposed for different applications. And, of course, a generous number of patches, abstractions, and code examples are available to the reader to digest, explore, and use as jumping off points for their own ideas. If you've long been fascinated yet intimidated by gen~, Generating Sound & Organizing Time is possibly the guiding light you need to get started.

Generating Sound & Organizing Time: Features

• Author: Graham Wakefield + Gregory Taylor
• 381 pages
• Numerous abstractions, patches, and code examples