Pitch Detection - Max/MSP Tutorial for Beginners

[@mekkanix]

I've looked everywhere for years for a pitch tracker that you can map to any parameter in live, and after every option I tried failed, this tutorial gave me the info I needed. I modified the max4live envelope follower to be fed by the retune object with the parameters you supplied above. I don't know much about max4live, so it's far from perfect, but I didn't need perfect. I just needed a device that responds to pitch so I can use it to change things like ring-modulation or wavetable position to create some unpredictable but interesting feedback modulations. Thank you so much for helping me to make that happen! If you could make a more professional device of the type I am describing, I'm sure a lot of people would be excited about it and grateful.

[@SuperBen421]

Love the harmonica playing too. Great sounds.

[@noiseinmotion]

Hi great great Video

[@sandynordahl1964]

Is there a reason you use retune~ as opposed to fzero~? Have you figured out a way to lessen false triggers? Great video.

[@animanoir]

my dude you should enable a Patreon or something, such sharing should be praised more 🙏🙏

[@HearingGlass]

It will probably happen one day.

[@EstebanRV]

These videos keep helping me build a patch for a piece, thanks! Do you know of a way to triggers something down the line after a certain piano note has been playing (and pitch detected) for a while? I've thought about using the counter (or maybe even count~) object to track it and send a bang after x seconds, but I'm guessing there is a better way. In any case, I'll keep watching, a lot of new ideas on every video

[@HearingGlass]

You can trigger a bang upon a detected pitch, and use [delay] to delay that bang for N amount of milliseconds.

[@EstebanRV]

@@HearingGlass Thanks for the response! Thing is, I don't only want to delay it, but to trigger it only if the pitch is continually detected for a set amount of time, or reset the timer if the sound is only there momentarily. I already managed this yesterday but now the problem is that since the pitch detection is so sensitive, if I stop the incoming sound for a moment the counter resets. I'm figuring out how to be sensitve to the "pitch detected" state, but less so for the "pitch went away" state. Max is fun

[@loveulen7697]

is there a way to make a similar patch in pd?

[@HearingGlass]

Probably!

[@gabrielestrada6165]

great video! Is there a way to do this but without latency? I think that's the issue, cause I'm actually interested on detecting the frequency of very smaller sounds, fields recording actually. I don't understand why there are many visual objects to display amplitude and frequency but none to actually output it more efficiently that with only long notes! Thanks :)

[@juliahill6045]

i dont know much about this but that seems like you'd be getting into the fft~ realm, the fast fourier transform. Seems hard to use and im trying to learn more about it

[@gabrielestrada6165]

didn't know that. Will definitely check that out! I'm quite new to all of this, so thank you a ton for this suggestion!@@juliahill6045

[@gaialivingston5683]

thank you!!

[@Albertmars32]

thanks for making this video. question: can maxforlive replicate a software called vochlea dubler where you can sing or hum and it will spit out the midi if you route it to a midi track with accordance to the pitch you are singing?

[@HearingGlass]

It should definitely be possible to make something similar, but I'm sure Vochlea uses a different algorithm for pitch detection.

[@Ch1cch1]

How can I use it with sfplay?

[@HearingGlass]

Depends on what you are trying to do with sfplay~.

[@Ch1cch1]

​@@HearingGlass instead of using edac I'd like to load a file with sfplay. I tried to connect sfplay to retune but it didn't work

[@ilonasch.1637]

How do you set up the internal instrument to use the MIDI signal?

[@HearingGlass]

As in sending it to a VST? Check out the [vst~] object and especially its help file for sending midi data.

[@aftofono]

what can I say? when you have to punch your keyboard, you have to punch your keyboard...