Right now, being told to compose something musical with max is like asking a toddler to paint your portrait using fingerpaints; the child will love every second and probably be very pleased with the result, even if it looks like --
I can't even be bothered to finish that simile. Composing using Max is hard. Last week I had fun playing around with the Function box, using a combination of that, numbers boxes and the preset tool to make a piece of music inspired by this;
Basically any horrible sound or attempt at music I got from Max, no matter what it was, sounded just as disgusting as that piece of notation looks.
I now find myself stuck for ideas; I don't want to just add in phasors, saws and things I remember from past lessons and hope it all comes together and makes something that sounds kinda cool; As fun as that would be, I want my 'writing' process to have some kind of structure. Or I at least want to REMOTELY know what I'm doing, rather than just typing random words into the object tool and linking the results together to see what I get.
In my search for inspiration I came upon this page. Containing this video;
Which is kinda cool, until you realise what months of working with MAX does to you;
