“Tap.Tools is my favorite Max add-on; an indispensable collection of time-savers at a really low price”—Peter Kirn, CreateDigitalMusic

The third-generation of our essential components for Cycling ’74’s incredible Max environment. The Tap.Tools deliver powerful objects for streamlining patches
and saving time with uncompromising quality.

New in Tap.Tools 3

	Multichannel audio support Save time patching, reduce cpu load, and improve patch structure with many objects now created with the number of audio inputs and outputs you need.		Internal 64-bit audio processing Enjoy the benefits of cleaner sound, more robust filtering, and improved signal processing accuracy.
	The Builder Produce standalone applications with Tap.Tools easily. Simply click a button and all required components are added automatically.		Full Max 5 Integration Fully integrate Tap.Tools 3 into your Max 5 workflow immediately. Tap.Tools 3 is the first third-party package for Max 5 fully leveraging the new database, file browser, documentation system, and auto-completion.
	Streamlined Operation Focus on your patching and spend less time waiting with dramatically faster Tap.Tools load time, new features to ensure the correct version of a Tap.Tools object is loaded, and simplification of the object set.		New Objects Explore fresh ideas with new objects including flexible filters and objects for file management.

Intelligent Control

Tap.Tools frees you from worrying about boring and tedious tasks by providing control objects that do the mundane. For example:

• tap.folder creates, copies, and deletes folders on your hard drive
• tap.filecontainer bundles files together into a database
• tap.path provides the path to your Desktop or Documents folder
• tap.pack and tap.unpack are more flexible versions of the standard objects

Intelligent control is not limited to the everyday chore, however. Tap.Tools provides objects for expanding your expressive control and performing high level tasks, including:

• tap.jit.ali, the heart of Hipno, morphs between sets of data.
• tap.xml.sax is a streaming XML file parser that allows you use any of a myriad XML-based formats including music-xml, xhtml, and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files.
• tap.windowdrag, completely re-written for Max 5, allows you to define regions of a patcher that can be used to drag the window around on the monitor.
• tap.applescript compiles and runs AppleScripts to interact with the Mac system.

Powerful Audio and Visual Tools

Eric Singer has done some work in Max/MSP-Jitter motion tracking, but there’s a lot more value and capabilities in Electrotap’s Tap.Tools—Peter Kern, CreateDigitalMusic

Leverage Jitter to your advantage by using Tap.Tools visual objects to track motion, track color, smooth data, build interfaces, and drive parametric controls. The power of Hipno is available in Max using these objects.

• tap.jit.proxity compares coordinate sets to tell you what point is nearest to a provided point.
• tap.jit.sum determines how much an image has changed from one frame to the next.
• tap.jit.motion supplies information about where motion is occurring within a matrix.
• tap.jit.colortrack produces up to 4 coordinate sets of color regions that followed in a matrix stream.

More than 10 years of experience designing audio algorithms are available in Tap.Tools – freeing you to worry about your art, research, or performance and not about how to create your own algorithm. Of course, you can work with low-level and high-level building blocks side-by-side too.

• tap.svf~ is not just a better sounding SVF filter than the one provided by MSP, it also includes integrated LFOs and portamento.
• tap.verb~ is the easiest way to add reverb to Max patch and include it in a standalone application or plug-in.
• tap.shift~ provides light-weight pitch shifting of audio signals while not using your entire processor to do it.

Getting Started in Minutes

An impressive collection of more than N audio effects processing objects, including reverb and pitch-shifting, means you can get audible results in minutes, even if you are used to it taking hours to build an audio algorithm in Max. Every object makes thorough use of attributes and Max 5’s inspector to put all of the controls you need at your fingertips – without spending time patching everything together before you can use it.

Every object, from video analyzers to xml parsers to audio generators, has a full help patcher and reference integrated into Max 5’s searchable and integrated documentation system. Quicktime movies demonstrate how to work, and are accessible in the integrated documentation and the Max 5 File Browser.

What people are saying

“insanely-cool”—CreateDigitalMusic.com

“I heartily recommend the Tap.Tools objects; I can’t imagine making patches without them.”—Bill Evans, Centre for Music Technology, University of Glasgow

“A monster set of externals, this is a powerhouse you (at the least) need to check out…”—Darwin Grosse, CreativeSynth

Download a Free Demo

Extend the power of Max with over 100 objects by downloading a free 30-day demo. After trying Tap.Tools, purchase a registration to continue using them indefinitely.

• Tap.Tools 3.0.1 for Mac OSX (version 10.5 or 10.6) [ download ]

Registered users also have access to downloads of previously released versions and new beta when they become available.

Licensing

Choose a license that fits your needs and budget. Distributing your work to others will require a Pro license.

Upgrades, Site Licenses, Questions

Visit our Site Licenses and Upgrades pages for information on these Site Licenses and Upgrades.

We have a Frequently Answered Questions or contact us with any questions at info@electrotap.com.

“MAX/MSP without Tap.Tools is like MAX without MSP!”—Bill Evans, Bill Evans Media