Touch Designer and Max or TD vs Max

eco_bach's icon

Hi
relative newbie. I am learning to use Touch designer (PC only) and was wondering how Max and TD might work together. Do they complement each other in terms of features or do they both do many of the same things? Could someone summarize the strengths of both?

Anthony Palomba's icon

As I understand it, Touch Designer does high quality motion graphics, similar to Quartz Composer.
I have no idea if you can integrate TD and Max. If TD supports OSC you might be able to control
it from Max.

I think the reason why people get TD is to have access to a lot of high quality animations right
out of the box. Max is like a lego set, you can create things that are just as impressive, you just
have to build it your self.