1.3 Practi ce Paragraph 1.

3 - Envelopes and glissandi

right mouse button and t hen select Add to Presentation Mode from the context
menu that appears at the mouse pointer. Presentat ion mode can be exploited
from both edit and performance mode (accessible, as always, from the padlock
icon): edit-p resentat ion mode is when you can change settings and adjust the
presentation positions of objects, wh ile performance -presentat ion is when you
can start up a patch and mod ify its parameters.

To make a patch appear in presentatio n mode by defau lt, every time that it is
loaded, you need to bring up t he Patcher Inspector from the View menu and
activate the Open in Presentation option .
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~ ACTIVITY

Using the fi le 01_09_envelopes_3.maxpat, create your own envelopes and save

them as presets. Add one or two oscillators with diffe rent timbres, such as a
square wave and a sawtooth wave, for example, each with its own envelope.
Remember that new function objects should be connected to thei r line -
objects using the second outl et rathe r than the first. Add the interface objects
(the number box and function objects) for the new oscillators to the set of
objects visible in Presentatio n Mode .

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EXPONENTIAL AND LOGARITHMIC CURVES
The line- object connects points using linear line segments, w hich means
that it moves from one value to the next over a given t ime by applying constant
increments (or decrements). Movement between freq uencies, however, is
exponential: for every rise of an octave, the value of the underlyi ng fr equency
parameter doub les. (The not e A, for example, written in bass clef between th e
first two lines of the staff, has a frequ ency of 110 Hz. Moving upward from
that note, the successive octaves are 220 Hz, 440 Hz, 880 Hz, etc., as show n
in f igure 1.44.)

Fig. 1.44 Successiveoctaves double the ir frequenc ies

If we calculate th e ratio between t he freque ncies th at define an octave,

rather than taking their difference, we realize that th is rat io remains consta nt
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