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Happy New Website

The Jamoma website has just had a total makeover, and we hope that it will be a lot easier to find the information you need from now on.

Getting to the downloads should be straight-forward, and we have improved the descriptions of Jamoma for Max


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Art + Music + Technology podcast series

For more than two years Darwin Gross has been producing the podcast series Art + Music + Technology. Each podcast is an interview with an artist, musician, designer or creative, discussing their work in general, and also touching upon how Max and other tools


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Ximena Alarcón

The artist and researcher Ximena Alarcón from CRISAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice) visits BEK in week 7. Friday February 19 she will give an artist talk, presenting her artistic practise, and also discuss her ongoing work on ‘Sound Matters: a framework for the


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Music Moves

The fourMs lab at the University of Oslo is now offering the free online course Music Moves: Why Does Music Make You Move?. At the end of the promo video, some Jamoma modules can be spotted.


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We have recently moved the forums from SourceForge to Google Groups. The web site has been updated accordingly, and now embeds the developer forum and user forum.

For anyone needing to access the old archives, they can still be found here:


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A new alpha release of Jamoma package for Max has been posted in the download section of the site. This new release (0.6.0-a46) includes all of the development that has happened over the past 6 months.

Ramping and dataspace

One important change with this version is j.parameter


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We posted a new alpha release of Jamoma package for Max in the download section of the site. Release 0.6.0-a42 is likely to be the last before Jamoma fully goes beta and we are quite excited about it !

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Quite a number of changes


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Part of the Jamoma team will be in Athens for the 2014 joined Sound and Music Computing/International Computer Music Conference edition. Pascal Baltazar, Théo De La Hogue, Trond Lossius and Nathan Wolek will be presenting the paper “Model-view-controller separation in Max using Jamoma” on


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The Jamoma core team is currently meeting in Bergen for a dense and, as always, very productive workshop.

The main topic of this workshop is to finalize the specifications and to achieve a consolidated version of Jamoma 0.6.

Thus, now is the time for making


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Update 01/10/1014
Note that some changes here have been postponed to some future release:
- random-generated auto-name has not been implemented. Hence you are still responsible for naming your models or modules. When duplicating a model for example, Jamoma will register it in the namespace


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Jamoma developers are currently coding away at the developer workshop here in Bergen. As usual in these workshop the philosophy can be expressed as “This changes everything” (Apple’s marketing way of saying that it breaks everything) or the Oblique Strategy “Destroy nothing. Destroy the most


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A new 29th alpha release of Jamoma 0.6.0 is online. This version contains many improvements relative to the j.parameter|message|return|remote Array externals.

But why should you try the 0.6 version ? because you’ll get the benefit of a real Model-View-Controler architecture. Look at those 2 patchers


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In their book The Pragmatic Programmer, Hunt & Thomas encourage readers to engage in "ruthless testing". Their ideas are summarized by a three-part message: "Test Early. Test Often. Test Automatically."

On the Jamoma team, we couldn’t agree more. We have worked hard for several


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Start this new year testing the 28th alpha release of Jamoma 0.6.0. This version contains more improvements than new features.

However you may have a look at the j.map features : this external allow you to edit a mapping between two remote parameters. By default


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When Tim and I wrote the very first paper on Jamoma, Jamoma: a modular standard for structuring patches in Max for the ICMC 2006 conference, we stated that one of the benefits of a standardised way of creating modules in Max is that it “ensures


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In Jamoma audio effects models it has been a long-standing issue how to ensure that the wet and dry signals are properly synced. This is important whenever we want to mix wet and dry.

One model where this has been an accute problem is the


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Nathan Wolek

Darwin Gross has just released a podcast interview with Nathan Wolek, talking about his musical education and career, his work on the Granular Toolkit, and his contributions to Jamoma development.


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Minicello has been kind to point out that the links for two of the older versions of Jamoma installers for Windows are broken. This is now fixed.

And while at it: We would very much like to have development of Jamoma for Windows up and


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Moviestar

The interactive installation Moviestar by Marieke Verbiesen & co was presented at the recent Meteor festival in Bergen. In the installation Max, Jitter and Jamoma is used for live interactive video processing, making use of chromakeying and blob tracking.

Moviestar v2 Work in progress –


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0.6 way of patching

The Jamoma 0.6 alpha version development continues. The new way of patching is close to be finalized and many fixes have been made in “real life” situations to ensure Max patchers stability. The 0.6 version provides a clear separation between the model (where the core


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GitHub issue tracker

When all of the Jamoma developers were gathered in Albi the past two weeks, most of the time was spent discussing current and future development. But we also spent some time on various kinds of project management in order to simplify our workflow.

For a


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SpatDIF article in CMJ

Jamoma developers are currently lining up in Albi for a workshop (more on that later). Currently everyone are busy bringing their systems up to date for the workshop. One question that keeps popping up is how to be able to fast and efficiently swap back


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SpatDIF article in CMJ

The latest issue of the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press) includes an article on the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format (SpatDIF) by Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, and Jan Schacher, entitled “The Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format: Principles, Specification, and Examples”.

Abstract


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Jamoma 0.5.7 package

Update 2013-04-10: I’ve corrected the name of the “patchers” folders as pointed out by Nicolas Marechal. Additionally I have added a Jamoma-dependencies folder to the archive as well. This folder contains a number of packages of 3rd party externals (ICST ambisonics externals, VBAP


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Jamoma for Max organised as a package

Over the past weeks, Tim and Theo have made some changes to Jamoma, its build scripts, etc., affecting developers and users that are checking out and building Jamoma from the GitHub repositories rather than using installers. These changes further improve the separation between generic C++


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Jamoma isnnotbyet compatible with Max 6.1

Recently Cycling’74 announced a public beta of Max 6.1. This is a 64-bit version of Max accompanying the upcoming release of Live 9. Max 6.1 can be run as 32-bit or 64-bit, but unfortunately initial testing reveals that the current Jamoma (0.5.7) will


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What happens when sound is being absorbed rather than reflected? How do we, subconciously, use spatial hearing to navigate space. Experience variations from absolute and pressing silence to illusions of soundcapes in the anechoic chamber at Haukeland hospital, one of the most fascinating place to


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SonData

SonData

At the upcoming Code Control Max meetup in Leicester 22-24th March João Menezes will be presenting the SonData Interactive Data Sonification toolkit as part of the Catalyst Science Fair. In addition he will conduct a workshop on Automatic generation of parameter data.

SonData

SonData

SonData

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Jamoma 0.5.7

We are happy to announce the release of Jamoma 0.5.7 for Mac. Please visit the Jamoma download page to grab a copy of the installer.

A lot of work has been done over the last year in order to implement new features and fix various


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Jamoma 0.5.7 release candidate 4

It turned out that a few externals where missing in the rc3 installer (jcom.clip~, jamoma~ and jamoma≈), so we try again. We’ve added those files, but apart from that there are no changes.

Grab the installer from the download page.

If you also use


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Jamoma 0.5.7 release candidate 3

I have just uploaded a new Mac OSX release candidate for Jamoma 0.5.7. This version fixes an issue with the cueManager module that Ricardo del Pozo discoverered in the previous candidate. There are some additional fixes regarding parameters of type decimalArray and integerArray. And finally


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CMJ Article by Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Victoria Johnson

The most recent editions of Leonardo and Computer Music Journal (CMJ) features articles relating to Jamoma. Leonardo features an article by Alexander Refsum Jensenius on some video abstraction techniques for displaying body movement in analysis and performance, while CMJ features an article


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First thing first, we wish all Jamoma users a happy new year! We hope 2013 will be full of exciting and successful projects!

2013 page

In order to start 2013 in a good way, we thought it would be great to take the opportunity of the Christmas


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YAML project format

Over the past spring we have done major under-the-hood changes to how C++ projects are maintained in Jamoma. Instead of needing to maintain parallel Xcode and Visual Studio projects (and potential additional projects for iOS and Linux), we now maintin project using simple YAML text


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Here’s a sneak peek of the newest feature added to Jamoma: Support for dataspaces.

In this example the parameter myPos is used to keep track of the position of a point in space. The parameter is using the position dataspace. By default position will be


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Besides working on the next big thing Video preview of Jamoma 0.6, we are also improving the current Jamoma version in many ways, including usability.

Last year we have already seen the addition of Clippings for all the distro and UserLib modules.

With Jamoma


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Jamoma Module Aliases from Trond Lossius on Vimeo.

While we’re on the screencast bandwagon, here’s a video illustrating a new feature that has been implemented this week: The ability to use aliases for the names of Jamoma modules. The main purpose of this is


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Today saw some further work on the TextMate bundle discussed yesterday, and an updated zip file will be posted shortly to the blog post from yesterday. I’ve also made a screen cast demoing it, and uploaded to Vimeo.

While at it, I created a


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TextMate bundle

Everyone that has been doing a bit of coding, know that syntax highlighting is extremely useful. In order to simplify manual editing of Jamoma cue scripts, I’ve just added a OSC TextMate bundle to the Documentation repository.

If you want to start using it straight


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Jamoma 0.5.4.rc1 (release candidate 1) has been uploaded. All issues related to OSX Lion are believed to be solved. There are no major changes as compared to the previous beta 2 release. Still, please give it a try. If we do not hear any


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We have just uploaded a new Jamoma installer for Mac. The most important changes in this version are:

  • Addresses a number of OSX Lion issues
  • Requires OSX 10.6 or newer
  • Sneak-peek of the new Plugtastic objects, but with minimal testing
    recently
  • Dataspace: The pitch dataspace

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The installation “Quit is distinguished” by Ricardo del Pozo will be shown at Union Scene in Drammen in Multisal 2 the 2nd and 3rd of October. Here’s more from his blog:

This is a completely new sound piece for 16 speakers, and I’m am


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A new installer is now available, with the changes and fixes reported and done in the last few weeks. Most importantly the four Plugtastic externals have been renamed. If you installed the previous beta, please remove the previous versions of these files manually:

  • plug.in≈.mxo
  • plug.in≈.maxhelp

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While we hope you all enjoy a nice summer, we thought you will also enjoy to hear some news from Jamoma.

New in Jamoma

Since the last post from our “Last months” series dating back to May, a number of things happened. The


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For the past 10 years the Granular Toolkit (GTK) by Nathan Wolek has been a welcome and much used extension to MaxMSP for granular synthesis and processing.

Nathan Wolek has just announced that in order to ensure future usability as well as enable


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For a while we have been airing the idea of doing development sprints: Focused efforts over a limited period of time targeting specific goals for Jamoma.

Jamoma dataspace

For the last week Trond Lossius has done a lot of work on merging the pitch and


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This blog post is intended at developers and users that do not use the Jamoma installers, but rather check out the code from GitHub, and compile externals and frameworks themselves.

At the BOD meeting yesterday it was decided to move the ObjectiveMax repository. This has


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New beta release : Jamoma Modular 0.5.3b is out

A new version of Jamoma was just uploaded. Alongside with the usual optimizations, bug fixes and all, Jamoma 0.5.3 brings some great news: for the first time in a year, Jamoma installer is available


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In case you missed Timothy Place’s message on Jamoma Development forum, we would like to draw your attention on a particular point concerning the support of Mac OS 10.5.

Apple has released Xcode 4. The fact is that you cannot build Jamoma with Xcode


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It has been a while since no update was posted on this blog. However, while things are quiet on the surface does not mean nothing is going on. As a matter of facts, since everyone came back from the nice and productive workshop we had


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New Jamoma release!

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We are happy to announce that Jamoma Modular 0.5.2 for Mac is now released. Please visit Jamoma download page to grab a copy of the installer. A lot of work has been done since the last release (dating back to June


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Some time ago, Adrian Gierakowski shared a nice patch showing use of a new jcom.hub feature to mix between presets.

Today, Adrian just posted a message on the Jamoma User forum to annouce some of his modules are now public. This “ag.granular.suite” collection contains a


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Jamoma and Touch OSC

Diemo Schwarz made a nice little tool that generates default templates for the Touch OSC app for iPad automatically from the parameter declaration of a Jamoma module. How cool is that?

Read more and download for free at Diemo’s page.


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Would there be a better way to inaugurate the first 2011 blog post than wishing you all a happy new year, full of exciting and successful creative projects?

We at Jamoma feel 2010 was a pretty nice year of work. As you certainly noticed by


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As always, the last couple of months saw a nice amount of work getting done. In case you did not have the chance to follow this closely, here are some highlights.

Releases

On the visible tip of the iceberg, a new beta of Jamoma Modular


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From our desire to continuously improve and extend Jamoma documentation, we decided to create a dedicated repository on Github.

Why another Jamoma repository?

As some of you might have noticed, until now, some parts of Jamoma have still remained not as much documented as


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While various activities were slowing down during summer break, we not only took the chance to enjoy the sunny weather outside (and we hope you did as well), but also spent more time on Jamoma development.

Development

Change of license

First of all, please note


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To facilitate maintenance of Jamoma’s source code, Jamoma has now its own residence at github. Please change your bookmarks from http://github.com/tap to http://github.com/jamoma.

Here is a good thread from the jamoma devel-list which explains some details.


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Controlling Web Servive from Jamoma

Today saw a new functionality added to Jamoma. The jcom.webservice component enables controlling and monitoring Web Sharing, the service enabling the computer to function as a web server, from within Max and Jamoma.

It does so by internally calling an AppleScript that behind the scene


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ProGit, the eminent introduction to and reference on GIT, is now available for iPad and
Kindle.

GIT Pro at Apple book store

GIT Pro as ebook


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If you just can’t get enough of social networking, Andreas Tolf Tolfsen has setup a Jamoma group at identi.ca.


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Today Alexander added a great feature to the jmod.motiongram% module providing a nice option both for creative and analysis use.

Watch the movie to see how easy it is to do slit-scanning with Jamoma now.

This feature will be available in the next Jamoma Modular


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Follow jamomaproject on Twitter

You can now stay up to date with various Jamoma activities by following us on Twitter. We are waiting for your tweets !


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We are pleased to announce that the first Jamoma 0.5.1 public Release Candidate is now available from the download page on Jamoma website.

Although this update has been extensively tested, some bugs may have escaped from our attention. As always, your feedbacks are welcome if


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It’s been some time since the last status update from the Jamoma development. The reason for this lack of news is that we were all just very busy. See below:

Publications:

We wrote and submitted conference papers on some new parts of the Jamoma framework


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People used to visit these pages will notice that a number of cosmetic changes occurred on Jamoma site. As a matter of fact, together with working on the next incremental Jamoma update, the team is working hard at making a full refresh of the site.


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Moviestar is an interactive installation by Marieke Verbiesen & Neeltje Sprengers. The installation moulds old and new media together in order to create a reallife moving filmset. Classic 16mm film, animation, robotics, sound and motiontracking are used to simulate a real life filmset where visitors


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Workshop on Sound Spatialization in Jamoma
Wednesday, March 31 at the Matrabox
Concordia University, Montreal, CA
1515 Sainte-Catherine West, room EV 4.502

12.15-1pm Nils Peters presents an overview of spatialization techniques

1-1.30pm Navid Navab discusses control issues and tools
2-6.30pm workshop on jamoma and spatialization


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FIAT LUX was a collaboration between Josefin Johansson, Daniel Sørensen and Ricardo del Pozo for Oslo Fashion Week, dressing models through the use of video projections, and receiving rave reviews:

In times of financial crisis, recession and too much focus on commercial values in


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Moviestar is an interactive installation by Marieke Verbiesen & Neeltje Sprengers.

The installation moulds old and new media together in order to create a reallife moving filmset. Classic 16mm film, animation, robotics, sound and motion-tracking are used to simulate a real life film set where


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Traditionally, January seems to be one of the most active months for Jamoma development. This year was no exception. Here are some highlights:

  • Jamoma Foundation project extended to allow compiling for the iPhone/iPod/iPad.
  • Jamoma DSP expanded through the addition of a new FFT Lib extension

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There are always lots of things going on with Jamoma development, thanks to the growing community of people contributing. These developments are available through the source code repository – these should also make it into future installers and releases. Here are a few highlights from


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An introduction to writing DSP code with Jamoma DSP is at http://blog.74objects.com/2009/12/03/writing-dsp-objects/. For people curious about the structure of the C++ code underlying Jamoma this is a good place to start.


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A test with Jamoma and Elasticindex~ object, Thanks for sharing, Ricardo!


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Multiplayer

The Multiplayer by Marlon Schumacher is a MaxMSP-based application for general purpose multichannel file playback and ambisonic decoding, developed as part of the OMprisma Library for IRCAM’s OpenMusic 6.1.

It is implemented as a set of modules complying with the Jamoma framework.

Multiplayer 0.1b7


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http://www.jamoma.org

Jamoma is an open-source project for structured programming in Max/MSP/Jitter and is based on modular principles that allow the reuse of functionalities where all parameters remain customizable to specific needs.

Jamoma is in development for more than five years and is used


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If you have installed Jamoma for the first time and you were so excited that you were beginning to use Jamoma without reading the “getting started” section in the ReadMe.rtf, then you have probably seen this kind of dark color scheme.

This is not the way Jamoma modules should look like

This is not the


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Release candidate 10 for Jamoma 0.5 is now available for download. Mac only so far, but hopefully the Windows installer will be up later today. Enjoy, and please report any problems you might find.

With this version we have officially dropped support for PPC processors


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Joseph Malloch recently created a new mapping module based on his DOT Mapper.

The DOT mapper is a network-based peer-to-peer mapping network and associated GUI, built for digital musical instrument mapping in the IDMIL at McGill University._

In addition to Jamoma’s jmod.mapper


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Pascal show Jamoma and the Virage Sequencer

In the Matralab

During the Jamoma development workshop last week, the development team got invited to the Matralab at Concordia University in Montréal directed by Sandeep Bhagwati who holds the Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art. In his work, Sandeep explores the artistic world between composed, predetermined structures


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After more than a year of hard work and 17 previous beta versions, we
are finally on the home stretch of releasing Jamoma 0.5 .

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We’re glad to announce Jamoma 0.5 Release Candidate 1, which is available online.

Jamoma 0.5 is a major rewrite


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Last week I did a lecture and worksop for the Musikkteknologi students at NTNU in Trondheim. Wednesday I did a presentation of artistic work and discussed experience and reflection on them. Thursday I did two 4-hour workshops providing an introduction to spatialisation.

For the workshop


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The Jamoma blog and wiki have now moved to a new server at BEK. In the process we are also abandoning Zope and Plone, the system used in the past for content management. Instead we are now using the wiki server that ships with


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Beta 2 is released


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Just after NIME most of the Jamoma developers gathered in Albi for a hectic development workshop generously hosted by GMEA.

The agenda for the workshop was pretty simple:

  • Get as far as possible on porting Jamoma to Max 5
  • No new features
  • Canard heaven


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Jamoma 0.4.6. was uploaded a few days ago. It’s mainly a maintenance release, and offers quite a few bug fixes as compared to 0.4.5.

Change log can be found here.

This might be the last Max 4.6 compatible release of Jamoma. Current development is


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Yesterday we were notified that a paper on Jamoma was accepted for ICMC 2008. We will also have a paper on the OSC namespace used for Jamoma presented at NIME 2008.

In addition there will be a panel session at ICMC entitled “Towards


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OpenAL is a cross-platform 3D audio API appropriate for use with gaming applications and many other types of audio applications.

The library models a collection of audio sources moving in a 3D space that are heard by a single listener somewhere in that space. The


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This was first posted 12/13/2007 04:46:14.

This week we are having a Jamoma developer conference in Brussels, generously hosted by iMAL. Alexander (1, 2, 3) has been writing some blog posts on ongoing discussions and work.

Today we have been


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New Modules:

  • jmod.blur%: spatial blurring

New Components:

  • jcom.char2float%: convert a matrix from char to float32, keeping planecount and dimensions
  • jcom.float2char%: convert a matrix from float32 to char, keeping planecount and dimensions
  • jcom.spray%: distribute a video matrix to multiple (8) windows on bang

Core Bug Fixes:


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Time before lunch was spent on general development, exploring the environment, helping everyone setting up svn so that they can get updates from the repository, etc. Also several bugs were recognized, some of which were fixed. We have started using the Sourceforge bug tracker again


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GMEA is holding a 4 day workshop on Jamoma, set up by Pascal Baltazar. We’ll try to blog what happens as it happens.

The first day of the workshop starts of with a presentation by Tim Place, discussing general philosophy of Jamoma, how it has


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Jamoma introductory workshop in Paris : March 23rd, Ars Longa

The Jamoma collective will hold an introductory workshop on the Jamoma framework for the French Max community. This workshop will take place at the Ars Longa gallery in Paris, on March the 23rd, from 10AM


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Jamoma 0.4 has now been released! This is a major update to Jamoma that includes a rewrite of the entire core architecture. All of the core functionalities are now coded in C, making this version faster, more flexible, clearer and easier-to-use.

There is a caveat


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In case anyone is interested/motivated, here is the terminal command to backup the Jamoma SVN repository:


rsync -av jamoma.svn.sourceforge.net::svn/jamoma/* jamoma-backup


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v001 is a simple and elegant framework for building modular and reusable performance patches for Max/MSP and Jitter

The lowest level patches in v.001 are abstractions that encapsulate the funcionality of the most commonly used Max/MSP GUI objects (and associated helper patches), rolled


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Earlier today Tim posted a status report on the new core to the jamoma-devel list. It is duplicated here, with some updates according to commits done today:

I thought I should summarize where I currently believe us to be on the development of the new


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The paper on Jamoma for the upcoming International Computer Music Conference is now available for download from the front page.


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The really big Jamoma development project lately has been the transition to v.0.4, with all core functionalities ported from abstractions to externals. The work has mainly been carried out by Tim. The above is from a mail to the jamoma-devel mailing list today:

Hey everyone,


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For the last few years I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to make modules in Max that have flexible channel configurations (mono, stereo, quad, etc.).

At present in Jamoma (and Jade for that matter) a separate module is needed for every different


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Tracker is a dance and music performance touring schools in the region of Oppland, Norway. The project investigates various ways of interaction between three artists, using live technology to create new possibilities of communication, by means of amplifeing and treating the sound of recorders, and


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In July a French development team related to a workgroup commissioned by the AFIM (French Association of Musical Computing) had a meeting in Paris. Below is a resume written by Pascal and posted to the Jamoma-devel mailing list:

First, this group is related to a


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First posted on 07/29/2006 04:04:15.

Version 0.3.2 (build 829) is now available for download. Release notes follow…

Core/Hub/Gui:

  • Added new message /ui/refresh that will work with all modules: If display update has been frozen, this message will update displayed values. It do not cause any

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Jamoma v.0.3.1 has been uploaded. This version includes universal binaries of all externals, compatible with the public beta universal binary version of Max (Max .4.6). Also included is a number of new modules for work on ambisonics are added, several new video modules, etc.

For


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For a while we have had occational problems with Max crashes when triggering cues in the Jamoma cuelist module. We have finally managed to track down and solve the problem. If you use this module, it is highly recommended that you download and install an


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An impromptu OSC developers’ meeting was held on June 8 2006 at NIME. Matt Wright has put a summary online here. Quite a few of the topics discussed seem relevant to current discussions and consideration within the development of Jamoma, e.g. the discussion


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I came back from two weeks vacation yesterday. Prior to that I only had one day in Bergen after returning from a very exciting week-long trip to Paris. I still have not had the time to write much about that trip.

May 17th I met


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We now have feeds monitoring changes to the Jamoma wiki:


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AntiKeyframe is a freeware VJ-application created in Max/Msp/Jitter for manipulating DV video live.


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dbv is software for doing output by the real time movie. It can customize to input for video, interface, effects, about all module in dbv program. All of modules are played by plug and play . And it can make a video system for realtime


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I have added a chat channel to this web page. This can be used for online collaborative debugging, random noise, etc. Join in at

www.jamoma.org/chat/chat


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We didn’t have time to properly finish up a real release of version 0.3.0 before Easter, so I’ve posted a second preview version of Jamoma 0.3.0 to the website. This is from a snapshot taken earlier today. It should be quite good. We will be


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Irin is online again after a hiatus (available at http://www.carloscaires.com/). I saw a demo given by Horracio Vaggione at the June in Buffalo festival a couple of years ago. What I remember most about it is that it seemed to have a really good


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aMente by prof. Don Malone is an algorithmic generator, a compositional tool in the studio, can be played in real time like an instrument, and works by applying various patterns to musical parameters (Rhythm – Pitch – Velocity – Duration – Voice). The player controlls


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NoTAM are currently in the process of implementing the composition Physis by Asbjørn Scaatun as part of the Integra project. It is implemented in Max/MSP, partly using Jamoma.


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Last week was the Teatrix workshop host by BEK, as previously mentioned in this blog. We used Jamoma extensively in the workshop, and also took the opporunity to a bit of development on it. The following pictures are from the theater at USF Verftet


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Theater Max is a collection of patches (abstractions, really) for control of sound in a performance environment, its usefulnessis certainly not limited to theater. Theater Max is broken down into three main components: cue list patches, cue properties patches, and the playbank patch.

Theater Max


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This is an excerpt from an email by Trond on the Jamoma dev list a month or two ago. I keep coming back to it as I think it summarizes the current state of Jamoma quite well…

In general concerning the use of jamoma, I


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This week me, Tim and Alexander are taking part in the Teatrix workshop hosted by BEK at Scene USF, Bergen. A log from the workshop can be found here. We use the oportunity to further development of Jamoma, with a bunch of new


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The move to OpenSoundControl is now complete. Alexander Refsum Jensenius has been adding several new video modules in the last few days. We probably still have some work to do before v.0.3.0 can be released, but I’ve decided to upload a preview.

There are


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Tim yesterday moved the Jamoma repository from CVS to Subversion. We have updated the Jamoma wiki to reflect the current changes.

One of many advantages of using Subversion is that you can now get (checkout) Jamoma from the repository with no username/password required.


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Here are some more environments for MaxMSP modules more or less related to the philospphy of Jamoma. I have not had the time to check out of all them yet to see how they compare to Jamoma:

Cooper is a flexible environment which can be


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There seems to be several similar initiatives to Jamoma happening at the moment. The UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox blogged here a few days ago is one of them. Yesterday I discovered another: Framework by Leafcutter John. Framework is aimed at effect processing of stereo


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First posted 02/23/2006 10:31:21.

UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox is a modular approach to a standardised way of developing modules in MaxMSP somewhat resembling Jamoma. The UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox is a collection of modules for creating and processing audio in Max/MSP and


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It has been decided that we are going to move Jamoma to use the OpenSoundControl protocol for communication between and within modules. At current the CVS is in a bit of a mess as it is undergoing the transition. If there are any “bleeding edgers”


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Some notes on current discussions for further enhancements/changes to the core of Jamoma:

Alexander Refsum Jensenius has suggested that Jamoma syntax should align to Open Sound Control.

Based on experience from various projects last autumn, I’m feeling a need for some modifications and additions


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In late October Tim Place gave a presentation at Electronic Music Midwest on Jamoma. The presentation (with notes) is available as a PDF here.


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December 1st Alessandro Fogar will perform Soundframes in Trieste, istituto Nordio, Soundframes, a work using Jamoma.


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The media installation Staged Spaces by Karen Kiphoff and Trond Lossius is currently on display at Bergen kunsthall as part of the exhibition Tracing Spaces. The exhibition also features works by Doris Frohnapfel, Dan Mihaltianu og Jeremy Welsh.

“Staged Spaces” consists of video


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Tim has uploaded version 0.2.1 today, and announced that Jamoma is available to the Max mailing list.


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The first pre-release of Jamoma (version 0.2 alpha 1) is now available for download form the front page. We have not yet made proper installers, but installing should be as easy as downloading the Mac OSX or Windows XP version, unpack and copy or move


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I’ve managed to get the wiki back online. This also implies that other Jamoma developers (= Tim for the time being) again can access and edit the jamoma.org site.

The blog still have the default BEK wiki layout, and should be customized somewhat, but this


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jmod.cuelist.mod is a new module implementing event cues in Jamoma in a simple text format, in a similar way to the event script in Jade. In conjunction with jmod.bridge, a new Jamoma component added today as well, it can control several or all Jamoma


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I’ve continued work on the layout of the blog. It’s a fairly labourous work, but I believe most of it is done now. It seems to be a problem about posting comments at the moment, but that’s the only remaining issue that i know of


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I’m in the middle of changing the default layout for CoreBlog into a customized layout for the Jamoma project. The good thing about it is that I’m learning a bit about Zope that might come in handy later on.


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I’m currently in the middle of updating the web pages, so that jamoma.org can have its own look and feel instead of inheriting the look of the BEK intranet. There’s a few issues about integration of Zope and Plone still to be sorted out, and


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Today I’ve added a tutorial on how to create a simple control module to the CVS. In the future I hope to be able to add similar tutorials for audio and video modules.


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Help files for the remaining audio modules planned for the v.0.2 release was added today. This was done the lazy way, by simply refering to their stereo sibblings. Apart from being less work, it also saves us from having to deal with keeping mono and


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Last month Tim Place described the development towards Jade in a series of posts at his blog.


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Trond Lossius is currently exhibiting two sound installations, both depending on the Jamoma library.

“Music as process, music as weather” is a sound installation exhibited as part of the Generator.x) exhibition, curated by Marius Watz. The exhibition opened September 23 2005 at The National


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jamoma.org is now up and running. The site is hosted by BEK. The site might look dull at the moment, mainly inheriting standard intranet layout solutions from BEK, but hopefully this will gradually be customized. The BEK servers offers a number of powerful


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