This is the Somax2 team's project page. Somax2 is part of the ERC REACH project

GO TO the IRCAM public Somax2 page

1. Introduction and User's Guide to Somax2
2. Somax2 developer's documentation
3. Publications : Computer Music Journal seminal article Cocreative Interaction: Somax2 and the REACH Project, Other Somax2 Publications
4. Research reports Somax Fundamental Concepts, Somax2 theoretical model and Somax2 Software Architecture

1. Somax2 Tutorials and Demo Videos Portal on Ircam Forum or alternatively on Vimeo, tutorials and demos
2. The demo videos are called "Improvise with the Masters" and show Somax2 co-improvize with XXth century Masters demonstrating advanced interaction strategies. This is associated to an accessible Somax2 Tutorial patch and sound collection allowing you to quickly do the same.
3. Somax2 performances, workshops, studio sessions on the Somax2 Youtube Channel, Joelle Léandre Somax2 Residency, Reach Project Youtube Channnel

Install from the Github Release Repository

Install from the Ircam Forum distribution page

Go to the ircam Forum Somax2 Discussion List

Basic Max Tutorials patches are contained in the software release package.

Check the Somax2 folder for files README, Somax2 Users Guide (PDF), Somax2.overview patch (access to all tutorials and help resources - also in the Max Extra Menu).

Explore the maxhelp's available for every Somax2 object, also accessible through the (?) mark available for every Somax2 UI object.

Advanced Tutorial "Somax2 Improvises with the Masters" can be found here

You can also check the research team Legacy Somax page for early reports on the Somax Model.

Gérard Assayag, Joakim Borg, Marco Fiorini, Mikhail Malt, Georges Bloch, Jose-Miguel Fernandez

Somax2 © Ircam 2020 -

Somax2 is a totally renewed version of the Somax reactive co-improvisation paradigm born in the Music Representations Team at Ircam - STMS.

It is part of the research projects ANR MERCI (Mixed Musical Reality with Creative Instruments) and ERC REACH (Raising Co-creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship) directed by Gérard Assayag.

Somax2 development by Joakim Borg, documentations and tutorials by Joakim Borg and Marco Fiorini.

Somax created by Gérard Assayag and Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot, adaptations and pre-version 2 by Axel Chemla Romeu Santos, early pro- totype by Olivier Delerue.

Thanks to Georges Bloch, Mikhaïl Malt and Marco Fiorini for their continuous expertise.

Thanks to Bernard Borron, Bernard Magnien, Carine Bonnefoy, Joëlle Léandre, Fabrizio Cassol, Marco Fiorini for their musical material used in Somax2 distribution corpus.