Keith Hamel

Almost all of the 3rd party externals that I regularly use will not load under MaxMSP 8.6.2. They are all fine under 8.5.  I have tried on several computers (Intel and Silicon chips) and on Silicon chips I have the app set to open using Rosetta.

I am puzzled because the configuration on my computers is exactly the same in terms of system and MaxMSP settings and the externals are all in the same location. When I launch my patch under 8.5 everything is fine, when I launch my patch using 8.6.2 I get a ton of errors.

For example, the MaxSoundBox collection of objects from IRCAM

are  externals that I use in almost every one of my patches. They are all compiled for arm64. They all work fine on MaxMSP 8.5 and on MaxMSP 8.6.2  they all produce the error:

Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/MaxAPI.framework/Versions/A/MaxAPI

Referenced from: /Users/keith/Documents/Max 8/Library/MaxSoundBox/externals/yin~.mxo/Contents/MacOS/yin~

Any suggestions or even verifications from others that many 3rd party externals do not work on MaxMSP 8.6.2 would be helpful.

Macbook Pro M1 64 GB Ram running MacOS 14.2.1

Almost all of the 3rd party externals that I regularly use will not load under MaxMSP 8.6.2. They are all fine under 8.5.  I have tried on...

maxmsp-862-3rd-party-externals

in max 8.6.x MaxAPI.framework does not exist as a file.

https://forum.ircam.fr/projects/detail/max-sound-box/

When I look inside each of the applications folders (8.5 and 8.6.2) I see the same Frameworks, and MaxAPI is there: 

Max.app/Contents/Frameworks/MaxAPI.framework/Versions/A/MaxAPI

I am having the same issue with all the cv.jit (Computer Vision) objects as well - they generate a Image not found error, so I don't think the problem is IRCAM's externals

take a better look, or do you have some private max 8.6.2 download link

maybe you mean MaxAudioAPI.framework which does exist

it takes 2 minutes to download latest maxsoundbox externals which do work in max 8.6.2

you can also update cv.jit from the Package Manager. make sure you also remove your old externals from the  search path.

Thanks for the suggestions. It does seem that the Max 8.6.2 was locating old versions of some of the externals and not using the most recent ones that I had installed. I removed all the old versions of the IRCAM MaxSoundBox and OMax objects and updated the cv.jit package and the loading errors have gone away.  It is just strange that Max 8.6.2 did not search paths in the same way that Max 8.5 did.  Having used Max for so many years, there are a lot of externals scattered in various places (including consolidated inside projects) so the answer to my problem is to trash all the old versions of these objects.

Thanks for help on this - the issue is now resolved.

MaxMSP 8.6.2 - 3rd party externals