![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s not to say one route is better than the other. (ChucK has also shown up powering successful mobile apps, like Smule’s Ocarina.) We’ve seen Max’s open source cousin Pure Data (Pd) run as the back end to a commercial game (Spore), on Linux on PDAs and old iPods, and as the back end to commercial iPhone apps.This is enabled by the fact that Pd is open source and community-supported, just as the ability to interoperate more deeply with Ableton Live was enabled by a commercial development process. The open-source altnerative now increasingly offers greater compatibility and flexibility. If you choose the commercial Max/MSP – Max for Live – Ableton Live route, you get a really unparalleled level of UI polish and usability, and extraordinary integration between your Max creations and the host (Live). What I think is happening – perhaps naturally so – is a differentiation between the proprietary and open paths. So, I actually think it may be a good thing for Max to have this focus, especially because, if you do want to support other hosts, there’s no reason to limit yourself to Max. That’s not to argue with the fact that the Max + Ableton Live combination will rock and be a big deal – no argument there. But on the other hand, part of the reason this may not be earth-shaking news is that there are alternatives – see below. It can be, at the same time, an utterly brilliant environment for yourself and for other people working with Max and Live. The upshot to me is that Max/MSP is no longer such a viable development environment for effects and instruments, if you want any kind of wider consumption of what you’re making. Thanks to Jonathan Bailey and Nick Inhofe for sending this in. But you might want to keep an old Mac or PC around running Max 4 and some of the strange plug-ins in the Pluggo collection. The good news is, some of the oddball Pluggo instruments and effects will be available for Max for Live when it comes out, and existing owners will get that at a discount. Max for Live is awesome, it just isn’t Pluggo exactly – for better and for worse. ![]() Pinky’s Wrecked System (though I appreciate the irony of that screenshot being Ableton). So, whereas a developer could create a Pluggo plug-in with Max/MSP and deploy it for free use anywhere, now you have to assume that the person using your plug-in will buy both Live and (separately) Max for Live.įor an example of why the Pluggo technology has been important, see examples like Ms. Cycling ‘74 has been clear in that Max for Live will be a paid product. (Ultimately, having to figure out how to support all those things was part of Pluggo’s demise, but the desire to do so still holds.) Pluggo support RTAS, VST, and AU on Mac and Windows, so you could use your Max patches as plug-ins in tools like Logic or FL Studio, too. Now, I think Max for Live is a very exciting technology – I’m finally editing some videos and discussion with Jeremy Bernstein, so we’ll have a preview next week. The article touts the upcoming availability of Max for Live as an alternative. More significantly, this means an end to the use of Max/MSP as a way of developing plug-ins David writes that there will be “no further development on … their supporting technology.” It’s the supporting technology that Max patchers have relied upon to make their own instruments and effects for VST/AU/RTAS Mac and Windows hosts, and its demise to me is the real news here for the Max community. David Zicarelli has announced that Cycling ‘74 is discontinuing Max/MSP Pluggo-based products, meaning the company will no longer develop Pluggo, Mode, Hipno, or UpMix. ![]()
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