Ladies and gents… it seems that MaxStream’s wireless Xbees have built in A/D converters.

Low cost 100m wireless units that run off of almost no voltage. Perfect for use in wireless Max/MSP constructions.

http://www.maxstream.net/support/knowledgebase/article.php?kb=180

That article has the details. Me being a COMPLETE n00b, this will probably take me a week or two to develop into something that works.

Until then, if anyone else wants to jump on this, just keep me up to date?
—
-Scott McLeod
framebyframe.ca

Based on the recent thread on Presentation, it sounds like many of you
are quite proud of your patcher interfaces.  With this in mind, I’ve
created a Flickr group for everyone to share screenshots of their
intuitive and not-so-intuitive Max patches.  This way we can create a
public gallery of patcher aesthetics. Here’s the URL:

http://flickr.com/groups/maxpatches

Also, in case you missed it, there is a Jitter group as well with lots
of pretty pictures here:

http://flickr.com/groups/jitter/

Don’t be shy…

Andrew B.

Dear Maxers!

I just released UB standalones of two “classic” realtime compositions that I started to develop in the early 1990ies when I was working at IRCAM:

Lexikon-Sonate (1992-1997)
algorithmic music generator

Amazing Maze (1993-2007)
interactive realtime composition for sampled sound particles

Both projects were started as works-in-progress on the IRCAM Musical Workstation (a NeXT machine equipped with a custom made DSP card) which contained a predecessor of Max and MSP. Parallel to work on both pieces I began the development of a software library nowadays known as the “Real Time Composition Library” (RTC-lib) which is widely used for algorithmic composition under Max and its derivates.

Both pieces run on Apple computers with PPC or Intel processors and can be download as freeware from:

http://www.essl.at

Spread the news!
   — Karlheinz Essl