Audio and loudspeakers setup

Midi setup

Each musician has a footswitch pedal to trigger sound and effects. These pedals should be connected to a MIDI converter in order to send  controller messages on 4 different midi-channels.

Software installation

Copy the following folders on your Mac

• quatuor1-max
  
• QuatuorSampleBanks

Start Max version 6.1 (or above)

Setup the max file preferences to :

• quatuor1-max/libMax5
• quatuor1-max/Soundfiles
• QuatuorSampleBanks/quatuor_banks2014

Initialization routine

Open the quatuor2.27-max6 patch with Max 6.1
Set the DSP status :

Turn the dsp on.

Choose "1_" in the "go to" menu to initialise the pedal follower : now the patch is waiting for the first pedal (from the first violin) to start the piece.

Patch presentation

Audio Matrix

Check the midi pedals

Check each midi pedal, you can adjust their channels and polarities in the patcher pedals.

Midi mixer

It is possible to use a midi mixer to adjust the mix between realtime sound transformation, samples and global reverberation.

Performance notes

All the electronic event names correspond to the bar number and are precisely written in the score. 
During performance, if it is necessary to resynchronise the pedal follower, you can use the following computer keyboard shortcuts :

• left arrow (or tab) : previous event
• right arrow : next event
• 1,2,3,4 : vl1,Vl2,Alto and cello pedal

Pedal follower

To understand how the pedal follower works :

• open “p PedalsScore”
• clic on the topleft bang to write the “score” ...

Sampler

This version uses the samplor~ object to play sample banks of string quartet sounds.

In the original version, it was possible to play these banks with soundfonts or external samplers (Akai, or Motu MachFive).

This possibility was kept in the patch, but should not be used.