Drawsocket

drawsocket is an node.js based server/client platform for generating synchronized, browser-based displays across an array of networked devices.

Developed at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2019 for a series of large scale concerts in the St.Pauli-Elbtunnel as part of the Innovative Hochschule Stage_2.0 project, drawsocket was conceived as a system for distributed notation display over a local area network for use in music and spatial performance contexts.

drawsocket provides a unified interface for controlling diverse media features of web-browsers (SVG, WebAudio, animation, etc.), which can be utilized in many ways--and additionally provides access to browser mouse and multi-touch gesture interaction data, which can be used for the creating of graphical user interfaces.

For more information, please see the documentation website at drawsocket.github.io

Max Package Installation

Requires Max version >= 8.1.0, and CNMAT's Odot library, and works well in the MaxScore notation framework.

To install:

1. Download the latest Max Package release from the drawsocket-max repository.
2. Unzip the downloaded release folder.
3. Place the drawsocket repository in the /Documents/Max 8/Packages folder.
4. Restart Max.
5. Make a new patcher and put a drawsocket object (abstraction) in the patcher, and go to the drawsocket help patch.
6. When running the drawsocket server for the first time: click on the script npm install drawsocket message to download the drawsocket module and dependency libraries (note that you will need to be connected to the internet for the download to work).
7. Refer to the examples in the drawsocket help file, and in the Max Extras menu.
8. See the Overview and API pages for more details.