mm-2-UB.app.sit -- for Macintosh OSX ( UB version for PPC/Intel Macs; unpacks to "mm-2.app")
       11.4 Mbytes download

  mm-2-PPC.app.sit -- for Macintosh OSX (PPC-only version for older Macs; unpacks to "mm-2.app")
       4.5 Mbytes download

  mm-2.zip -- for Windows XP (be sure to start the ".exe" file [it may be labelled "MaxMSP"], not the ".mxf" file -- it should have a 'snowflake' icon)
       5.8 Mbytes download


  Here is a 10-minute piece I did by recording the output of mm-2:   mm-2 (snow)

  Philippe Gruchet did a really nice thing with mm-2. He created a piece called Etheric Breathing, made by layering several versions of the application on top of each other. He describes it this way:

Here is a slightly different demo sample of "mm-2" using 3 instances of the application duplicated in the Finder, on a G5 Dual. The first uses your original "aaah-C8.aiff" [soundfile]. The two other applications are based on two custom soundfiles.


The link to the piece is here: Etheric Breathing     (8:00, 9.2 Mbytes)

Thanks, Philippe!

NOTES

• The graphics may interfere with the audio, especially on slower computers. The check-box will turn them on or off (the default is off).
  
  
• As always, I honestly don't know how well the Windows versions will function on other machines. I ran it on my XP laptop at home for several hours continuously and it seems ok. I set some default audio parameters that seem to work will, but people with max/msp may want to overrride them if the sound is discontinuous (signal vector size of 32, i/o vector size of 64, overdrive, etc.). My defaults will get set when the app is loaded, so you will need to change them with max/msp after loading. Suggestions for improving my Windows apps are always welcome!
  
  
• If you run max/msp and have an older version of the [rtcmix~] external installed, it may interfere with this application. Be sure you are using v1.4 or later.
  
  
• The special, super-secret Philippe Gruchet feature: type SHIFT-v and a volume control will magically appear! (SHIFT-v again will make it go away.)
  
  
• Here are the source max-patches for the app (if anyone is interested):
  
  
  • mm-2-src.tar, mm-2-src.sit  
  • mm-2-src-w.zip  
  
  In the OSX source archive is an additional patch, mm-2-fade.pat. This was actually the original version of the application for OSX, and it uses Wojciech Kosma's [windowmanager] external to make the little snowflake windows fade up and down. Very snazzy! I was not able to get the external to build into the standalone application, though. Darn.