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.

Max is an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software. Connect Ideas Together to Create!

OBJECTS

Each object does something. Max has objects that generate sound waves, represent hardware, or provide a UI for interaction.

PATCHCORDS

Patchcords connect one object to another. This connection lets objects share their output with connected objects.

CONTROL

Connect UI objects like dials and sliders to provide control values or display results. Modulate, map and scale data to get just the right results.

Create Software Built Around You, In the Moment

Drag in your own audio clips and start manipulating them and connecting effects

Map your patcher with MIDI controllers as you go to start playing with your creation while you work

Expanded Ideas

Max patching starts on a blank canvas, free of any structure. This makes it natural to build and explore unique ideas that would be too complex to make elsewhere. The Max patcher automatically expands to fit your work as it grows, no matter how much space you take up.

Explore Sound without Limits

Design a custom synthesizer with as many oscillators and effects as you wish.

Manipulate samples in every way, including timestretch and pitch shifting.

Build up more layered sounds using MC objects to patch multichannel audio.

Make Sound with a Gesture

In Max, you can build classic synths from scratch or get lost hacking together unusual sounds. Try the XY controls below to hear some sounds you could create with Max.

You can do a lot with just a single oscillator and a filter.

Add some extra modulation and try something a little more wild.

Make Visual Music

Max includes full-featured, expandable video and graphics tools with Jitter. Jitter is optimized for realtime audiovisual work, and is easy to combine with audio, sequencing, and modulation like everything else in Max.

Take Max into the World

Max provides the tools to connect your computer to the external world, or connect many computers together. With support for a constantly expanding list of hardware and communications, Max is ready to talk to everything.

Prototype and Evaluate

Flexible access to hardware makes Max a perfect environment for prototyping. Connect your development board to Max and get instant access to sensors, knobs, and switches. Watch the data stream in as you develop the interaction.

Countless commercial products, art installations, and stage shows have relied on Max to glue together all the parts of their process.

Generate Audio, Video, Code

Use Gen to patch together fine-tuned processes for audio, matrix data, or texture processing. Gen lets you combine procedural commands with visual patching to simplify the creation of custom processes.

Gen objects can also output source code to be used elsewhere if needed.

Extended Max

Max's built-in Package Manager offers immediate access to over 50 add-ons covering everything from computer vision to support for hardware controllers including Novation, Monome and ROLI controllers.

If the feature you want doesn't exist in Max, chances are someone in the community has created it. And if they haven't, you can extend Max yourself using C++, NodeJS, Java, or javascript.

v8.5.2 Release Notes

New Features

jit.gl.environment:'reflect_edge'reflection map edge length attribute

jit.gl.meshwarp: added input matrix for mesh geometry

jit.gl.meshwarp: output_mesh_matrix message to output mesh vertex matrix

Projects: allow using templates via 'add new file'

RNBO: v1.0.2 update

zl:'zlreset' message to reinitialize but not reset 'mode' parameters

Fixed Bugs

crosspatch: protect against feedback

dict:'contains' supports ints

jit.cellblock: fixed drawing artifacts when referring to a coll

jit.gl.mesh: fixed crash with adjacency draw modes

jit.gl.path: fixed issues with adjusting evalin/out attrs

jit.gl.render (glcore): added error message when matrix rendering is enabled

jit.gl.skybox: fixed issues with jit.movie @output_texture 1

jit.gl.slab: fixed color attr for default shader

jit.gl.text2d: fixed 'screenmode 0' rendering with high DPI displays

jit.gl.text3d: fixed memory leak

jit.pix: attrui updates when param changes

Jitter JS: fixed 'jit_gl_implicit' "No such object" error

jweb: fixed memory leak with 'readfile'

Max for Live metro: fixed issues with output when looping in arrangement

Max for Live: improved timing / sample accuracy

MC wrapper: fixed crash setting 'chans' message from scheduler thread when Overdrive is enabled

mc.gen~: fixed crash when saving with codebox (Win only)

mc.index~: buffer channel right inlet can be set

mcp.sfplay~: MC chans attr works

node.script: fixed memory leak

Parameters: 'Stored only' blobs work as expected

Patcher Window: fixed zoom button in fullscreen

RNBO patching: fixed errors when disconnecting patch cords via handle drag

RNBO: v1.0.2 update

Scheduler: fixed timing with UI operations that trigger signals (ex: bang->click~)

sfrecord~: fix crash on invalid path in 'open'

Standalone: CEF is appropriately not copied when it is disabled (Windows)

Startup: small speed up (clippings are iterated later)

textedit: eliminated extra quote escapes

textedit: fixed crash when sending 'clear' via closebang

textedit: improved behavior of @nosymquote

textedit: text length does not affect presentation rect

thispoly~: works when created in modify-read-only subpatcher

VIDDLL HAP: fixed decoder error (Windows)

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