Notam's Max Meetup is a get-together for anyone interested in programming with Max. It's an informal meeting where Max users can share ideas, projects, techniques or just help each other out. 

Max is a visual programming environment for creating art, multimedia, sound and music created by the company Cycling 74. It's one of the most popular tools for creating all kinds of digital art and has been an industry standard since the 90s. Whether you're interested in programming interactive design work, music, sound or images, this is the event for you.

If you are completely new to using Max, we recommend taking our online Max course, which will be relaunched in autumn 2025.

Max Meeting ID: 961 8668 2482
Link: https://zoom.us/j/96186682482

Presentation 28 April: Eric Lyon- Spectral Surfing with FFTease
This presentation will provide a practical introduction to working with FFTease – a Max package designed for spectral synthesis and processing of audio signals. FFTease is included in the Max Package Manager, and participants of this presentation are encouraged to install FFTease if they wish to follow along.

Eric Lyon is a composer and audio researcher focused on digital interventions, post-hierarchies, high-density loudspeaker arrays, and the inspiration of performer-based creativity. His audio signal processing software includes “FFTease” and “LyonPotpourri.” He is the author of "Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd", a guidebook for writing audio DSP code for live performance, and "Automated Sound Design", a book that presents technical processes for implementing oracular synthesis and processing of sound across a wide domain of audio applications. In 2015-16, Lyon architected both the Spatial Music Workshop and Cube Fest at Virginia Tech to support the work of other artists working with high-density loudspeaker arrays Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd and Automated Sound Design.

More recently, he designed the Spatial Audio Tidepool with Tanner Upthegrove. Lyon’s creative work has been recognized with a ZKM Giga-Hertz prize, MUSLAB award, the League ISCM World Music Days competition, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Lyon is a Professor of Practice in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech and is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.

The host: 
Meetups in Max are hosted by Bálint Laczkó, a composer and music technologist who has been an enthusiastic Max user since version 5, and who has used Max to generate algorithmic compositions, moving images, to build and decompose sounds, or to spatialise them in speaker systems. He holds master's degrees in classical and electroacoustic music composition, and is currently pursuing his PhD in music technology.