Cycling ’74 has a surprisingly packed Max 9.2 update out now, with improvements and additions for Jitter, the Web, V8 (JavaScript), buffers, video on Windows, Gen, and the Ableton abl collection. It’s a slew of nice stuff for patchers.

Patching is more than ever the knitting of the development world: the pleasure of visually connecting your stuff with wires, step by step. And we get some nice goodies here, which I’ll summarize:

ABL new hotness. From the Ableton-Cycling ’74 crossover, we now get the scrambler FX time for modulators and abl.dsp.transform~, the sharktooth LFO waveform for abl.device.autofilterZ, @quantize in abl.device.resonator~, and three new objects to go try:

abl.device.reverb2~ (Feedback Delay Network-based reverb)

abl.device.stereocompressor~ (with three modes)

abl.dsp.djfilter~ (you know it, bipolar DJ-style filtering)

But I don’t know how to use this stuff! If only CDM had done a multi-part tutorial on the topic for absolute beginners!

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