Description:

The Digital Orchestra Toolbox (DOT) began in 2006 as a repository of useful MaxMSP functions for the CIRMMT/McGill Digital Orchestra Project. Over the years, it has grown and evolved through use in subsequent projects at McGill and elsewhere, including the development and performance of several new digital musical instruments, such as the T-Stick and the Spine.

Currently, the DOT includes more than 120 tools, and unlike many packages available for extending Max, it consists only of abstractions rather than compiled external objects. This ensures easy cross-platform functionality and makes the internal structure and functions of the tools viewable, understandable, editable, and appropriable by users within Max itself.

The DOT can be accessed from within the Max package manager or downloaded from Joe Malloch’s GitHub source repository.

License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html

Additional funding for this project was provided by the FRQSC through the McGill Digital Orchestra project.

IDMIL Participants:

• Joseph Malloch
• Marlon Schumacher
• Stephen Sinclair

Research Areas:

• Mapping
• Software Development

Funding:

• NSERC

Publications:

• Ferguson, S., Wanderley, M. M. (2010). The McGill Digital Orchestra: An Interdisciplinary Project on Digital Musical Instruments. In Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (pp. 17-35).
• Pestova, X., Donald, E., Hindman, H., Malloch, J., Marshall, M. T., Rocha, F., Sinclair, S., Andrew Stewart, D., Wanderley, M. M., Ferguson, S. (2009). The CIRMMT/McGill Digital Orchestra Project. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC2009) (pp. 295-298). Montreal, Qc, Canada.
• Malloch, J., Schumacher, M., Sinclair, S., Wanderley, M. M. (2018). The Digital Orchestra Toolbox for MAX. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2018). Blacksburg, VA, USA.