Max for Mac
Graphical programming environment for music, audio, multimedia.
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Max overview
Max is a graphical environment for music, audio, and multimedia. In use for over twenty years by performers, composers, artists, scientists, teachers, and students, Max is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams.
What’s new in version 8.6
New Features
- array.indexof: @offset and @all attributes
- array.insert: new object
- array.tosymbol/array.tostring: new objects
- Node For Max: loadstart / loadend messages
Fixed Bugs
- amxd~: fixes issues related to setting a parameter with another parameter
- array: 'insert' improvements
- array.map/reduce: fixed memory leak
- array.push: fixed memory leak
- array.push/array.wrap: performance improvements
- array.reduce: works asynchronously
- array.slice: can explicitly specify the end of the array
- CEF / jweb: fixed issues when HiDPI is disabled
- closebang: fixed potential crashes when closing patches
- codebox / Text Editor: improved contrast in some themes
- Color popup interface: shows rgba sliders (Win only)
- dialog: fixed focus issues
- dict.unpack: @legacy behavior improvements during dynamic load
- Examples: can open more than one / show up in the Windows menu
- fft~: Increased fft maximum size to 131072 to match pfft
- Fonts: Fixed rendering of fallback fonts (ie Japanese)
- GLCore: Fixed color attribute
- groove~: fixed stalling when loop length is zero
- JS buffer: fixed crash when buffer array is null / improved errors
- key: eliminated duplicate output
- live.* UI objects: improved unfocus behavior
- live.remote~: normalization fallback for Live 11 and earlier
- Max for Live: device window always opens on a display
- Max for Live: modulator mappings are saved/restored
- node.script: double-click in frozen Max for Live device opens text editor window
- Parameter: clip modulation mode attribute defaults to 'Additive'
- pattrstorage: cancel in save dialog aborts patch close
- playlist~: fixed crash when playing audio in reverse
- selector~/gate~/etc: fixed issues when audio is off in the Max for Live editor
- sfizz~: fixed crash when note value is > 127
- sfizz~: fixed patcher library path defaultpathmode
- umenu: popup is dismissed when clicking on titlebar
- Windows multitouch: fixed touch / drag in Max for Live devices
Max for Mac
$399.00
In English
Version 8.6
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Nov 21 2010
Version: 5.1.6
You should also check it's cousin, pure data, the freeware version of the MaxMSP paradigm.
http://puredata.info/
May 20 2008
Version: 5.0.1
Max 5 is everything we have been waiting for. I wrote a comprehensive user review with pictures here:
http://jnote.org/162
Highlights of Max 5 include jWeb, text buttons, presentation mode and improved graphics all around.
May 1 2008
Version: 5.0.1
Incredibly powerful program, incredibly difficult company to deal with. Licensing, unless they've changed it in the new version 5, is very arcane and cumbersome.