I haven’t really played much with Automator earlier on, but have found it to be very useful for doing small things that you would otherwise need to write a small shell script or program to do. Here is a screenshot of an Automator workflow which will add today’s date to the name of any file or folder. Very easy!
I am teaching a course in sound theory this semester, and therefore thought it was time to update a little program I developed several years ago, called SoundAnalysis. While there are many excellent sound analysis programs out there (SonicVisualiser, Praat, etc.), they all work on pre-recorded sound material. That is certainly the best approach to sound analysis, but it is not ideal in a pedagogical setting where you want to explain things in realtime. ...
The intention of MAX was to create a graphical programming environment for musicians and composers (Puckette 1985). Originally developed at IRCAM by David Zicarelli and Miller Puckette in the late 1980’s, it soon became popular for controlling MIDI- instruments (Puckette 1988). Its unique flexibility, and the possibility for users to extend the capabilities of the environment by writing new code, secured its position in computer music (Puckette and Zicarelli 1990). The novel idea was the creation of a graphical environment that could be run in real-time, allowing the user to interact with the program. The MSP-package (released in 1996) added audio capabilities, and Jitter (released in 2002) allows the manipulation of video. Today MAX/MSP/Jitter are commercially available products, continuing to attract a large community of users10. ...