About
Max 8 is a visual programming language for music and multimedia.Over its history spanning more than 20 years, it has been utilized by composers, performers, software developers, researchers, and artists.
Key Features of Max:
- Create and run an unlimited number of applications and tasks, limited only by your computer's memory and processing power.
- Design cross-platform programs and interactive user interfaces using hundreds of modular objects and UI widgets.
- A series of over 40 interactive tutorials guides you through using Max step by step.
- Interactive help provides working demonstrations for every object and its specific features.
- A quick and simple way to use your computer to control hardware (or vice versa) via systems such as the Adaptive from Makingthings or the Icube from Infusion Systems.
- Built-in support for an unlimited number of MIDI input and output streams (using MME on Windows and Core MIDI on Macintosh).Plus, support for serial devices and mouse cursor tracking.
- QuickTime movie playback.
- Interactive program editing and debugging features, such as foreground/background toggling, message tracking, object inspectors, and smart copy-and-paste.
- An easy-to-use, cross-platform SDK for software extensibility, which has been embraced by a large user community, enabling Max to handle everything from networking to statistical analysis.(Check out the Max/MSP Resource Guide for some examples).