Conducting exam & MAX patch

Studying for a conducting exam is entertaining. You get some exercise (yes, flapping your hands is exercise, how minor it may be), get to study good music and get a release for all those pent-in "coloringbook-needs" (see pic.)

We had our open dress-rehearsal-concert yesterday evening for the Voiceworks. Went well and many interesting pieces on the programme. We should feel quite confident for the Wigmore Hall this wednesday.

I met with Ruth Hardwick yesterday as well to try out my Bassoon/MAX piece "Pan-dora". For the most part it seems to work quite well though we encountered a problem regarding a bar being to powerful so it triggered the last audio files too soon. That´s what workshops are for right? Gain was also an issue. The volume of the playback was to low and after a litle while searching online I found and downloaded these MDA plug-ins (http://mda.smartelectronix.com/effects.htm) to help with amplification. The dynamics plug made that problem a thing of the past.

As of today the patch looks like this.