I started learning Max8 using the video on youtube. Following the instructions was not a hard task, but it is quite challenging to do things from scratch by myself. So, I made some changes to the time patcher created following the video tutorial. I added another swatch controller and change the led background color for each options——10 seconds, 20 seconds and 60 seconds. There are also some problems that I failed to solve: how to change the light of LED with swatch, which I tried really hard, since in the LED it says Hilited LED color, but I just couldn’t change it; why the counter goes up to 1000 after one round (this is quite wierd). All in all, this learning experience is relaxing and full of fun, it is always refreshing to look at something you build and feel the accomplishment.
Next, I’ll show how this time patcher works in presentation mode and in edit mode.