Tutorials

Tutorials


NOTE: unless specified otherwise, all tutorials assume you will start by copying MEAP_BASIC_TEMPLATE to a new blank sketch


BASICS

Learn the anatomy of a MEAP program and some of the mechanics of controlling oscillators and envelopes.

1. Program structure and audio output
2. Potentiometer control
3. Capacitive touch control
4. DIP switch control
5. Volume control
6. Envelopes and an improved keyboard

SYNTHESIS

Learn some basic synthesis techniques, the kind you might find on a commercial synthesizer.

7. Audio filters
8. A subtractive synthesis patch
9. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Frequency modulation
10. Operator FM Synthesis
11. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Wavefolding and waveshaping

SAMPLING

Working with samples

12. Wavetables, sampling, and a piano sound
13. Chopping a drum break
14. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Sample scrubbing
15. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Rompler Instrument

SEQUENCING

Playing, generating and transforming melodies.

16. Metronomes
17. A melody sequencer
18. Drum Sequencing

GENERATIVE

Giving some compositional control to your MEAP.

19. Randomness
20. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Composing with densities
21. Mapping
22. Transition tables
23. Laurie Spiegel's Harmonic Algorithm and Entropy

MIDI

Connecting your MEAP to other instruments.

24. INPUT: Controlling MEAP with a keyboard
25. OUTPUT: Controlling MIDI sound modules with MEAP
26. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]CLOCK: Using MIDI time code to synchronize with MEAP
27. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Connecting MEAPs to each other

Audio Input

Audio input: effecting, analyzing, storing, etc

28. Audio passthrough and filtering
29. Buffering and storing audio
30. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Pitch analysis

Advanced Synthesis

31. Additive synthesis
32. Wavetable interpolation and Vital tables
33. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Physical modeling synthesis
34. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]String synthesizer
35. Granular synthesis
36. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Pulsar synthesis
37. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]L-system synthesis

INTERACTIVE

Treating your MEAP as a co-performer

38. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Computer as a follower
39. [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]Computer as a listener

HARDWARE

Hacking extra electronics into your MEAP

40. Multiplexers