Multitouch Rotary Dial and X-Y Granular Exploration

November 6, 2009 – 6:57 pm by John Keston

With help from Josh Clos I have shot a short video documenting what my latest MaxMSP project does.

It’s a sort of swiss army knife of wavetable glitch machine and sample scrubbing tools. Hopefully the video will shed some light on what this project is about. I’ve been trying to describe it in a few other posts without much success, but seeing it in action seems to make a bit more sense.

The next step invovles integrating this tool into the Five Output Atemporal Looper i describe in my last entry.

For more information check out some of the related posts including Physically Modeling Multitouch Controls, Traversing Samples with Granular Synthesis, and TouchOSC Controlled Glitch Looper in MaxMSP.

Multitouch Rotary Dial and X-Y Granular Exploration from Unearthed Music on Vimeo.


  1. 16 Responses to “Multitouch Rotary Dial and X-Y Granular Exploration”

  2. John, this is great stuff that you are doing with Max/Msp and TouchOSC.

    If you are willing to share, I’d love to see more info on how you get that scrubbing to work so flawlessly.

    I’ve been looking forward to seeing your new patches each week. Thanks.

    By Max Breakwell on Nov 7, 2009

  3. Very cool John!

    By Andrew on Nov 7, 2009

  4. Hey Max. Thanks for the note. At some point I’ll try and make a quick abstraction that only includes the scrubbing feature and include it with a new entry here.

    By John Keston on Nov 7, 2009

  5. John…. this is awesome. It looks like you’ve been putting in some SERIOUS work!

    By Eighty Four on Nov 14, 2009

  6. woah, this looks sweet! I’d never heard of TouchOSC (or MaxMSP, for that matter) before, and both look really cool.

    By Martin on Nov 21, 2009

  7. Hey Marty. Glad to introduce you! There’s a 30 day MaxMSP demo at http://cycling74.com or let’s get a beer and I’ll show it to you sometime.

    By John Keston on Nov 21, 2009

  8. Hi John, I’ve been reading your blog for some time now and find it really fascinating and inspiring. I had a look today to see if you had any tutorials about creating ‘wind sfx’ but saw none so I created my own puredata patch and wanted to share it with you. the link is

    http://www.anthonyhartnell.co.uk/?attachment_id=79

    By Anthony on Nov 23, 2009

  9. p.s. I love the new site design.

    By Anthony on Nov 23, 2009

  10. Thanks, Anthony! That gives me a good excuse to start experimenting with PD.

    By John Keston on Nov 23, 2009

  11. love it. great blog.

    By joseph on Jan 30, 2010

  12. Hey, great stuff! I was just wondering how you managed to implement the JavaScript to control the wheel friction. Where is the JavaScript held?

    By Dan on Feb 25, 2010

  13. Hi Dan. Max has a js object designed specifically to integrate javascript into max.

    By John Keston on Feb 28, 2010

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