Max 6

Hans Mittendorf's icon

We gave an electronic music concert (based on Max) at the week end.
I was told that Max 6 supports multiple processors. That is very much worth the upgrade since I have ideas for Max which go up to 88% CPU load!

When is it coming out?

Chris Muir's icon

Max 5 already supports multiple processors. Look at the parallel and threadcount messages to poly~.

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay's icon

and if you want very efficient multithreading (on Mac) check Alex Harker's externals (www.alexanderjharker.co.uk)

Roman Thilenius's icon

usually you can save a lot of CPU by better programming or by lowering your quality demands.

Hans Mittendorf's icon

Is the DSP status window going to be updated to show two four or eight processors?

Timothy Place's icon

The way Max 6 expands on multithreading is that each top level patcher can be run on its own thread and thus you can balance the load across processors. This is dramatically different that using poly~, and offers a lot more flexibility.

The DSP status window hasn't changed, but you can see the difference using something like Apple's Activity Monitor.

There's also a new sneak peak video regarding audio quality in Max 6 that we just put up on the site today: https://cycling74.com/articles/max-6-sneak-peek-msp-audio-quality/

A bunch of cool things got left out of the video, but it gives a taste...

Cheers,
Tim

Jesse's icon

The more I see the more I want Max 6 to arrive!

One question: is windowed-fft~ a replacement for pfft~ ?

Timothy Place's icon

windowed-fft~ is just an abstraction. It's a useful abstraction though, and an abstraction that is included. Good eyes to notice that :-)