Get the Latest on Max and our Community

The list of what we're discovering about Max and our users grows each day. We tackle everything from hardware reviews to re-reading books from decades past.

MXJ Class Loading

by rothwell on January 30, 2006

This is a quick rundown of how the MXJ class loader works, and the implications for class variables (statics).

Om NAMMa Shiva (Part N where N=3)

by Gregory Taylor, Lilli Wessling Hart on January 22, 2006

The nature of the booth traffic is visible not only in a relative dearth of exciting action demo photos on my part (I am giving them...

Om NAMMa Shiva (Part N where N=2)

by Gregory Taylor, Lilli Wessling Hart on January 22, 2006

We’re behind the Apple booth. This is a good thing in that we are beside and right in the demo audio line of fire of the Sony booth; two...

Om NAMMa Shiva (part N where N=1)

by Gregory Taylor, Lilli Wessling Hart on January 22, 2006

Greetings from the Los Angeles equivalent of a serious cold snap (which equates to an exceptionally nice respite from a Midwestern winter)....

MSP Learns to Ride a Bike

by David Zicarelli on December 28, 2005

The first version of MSP was released eight years ago -- December 21, 1997 to be exact. As MSP's age now represents a child old enough to...

MIDI and the Lemur

by Darwin Grosse on December 26, 2005

The JazzMutant Lemur is an incredibly versatile control surface for media applications. It allows you to create an interface match your...

Writing Externals with Xcode 2.2

by Timothy Place, Lilli Wessling Hart on October 5, 2005

In this article we will take a step-by-step approach on how to write externals from scratch using Apple's latest developer tools. We will...

A Video Interview with Matt Wright, Musical Systems Designer

by Lilli Wessling Hart, Cycling '74 on September 28, 2005

"Drawing" on Ornette Coleman: synthesis control using a graphics tablet.Watch Matt's video.

A Video Interview with Ali Momeni, Composer & Researcher

by Lilli Wessling Hart, Cycling '74 on September 28, 2005

Controller workshop: From do-it-yourself tablas (with sponges!) to the Lemur. Watch Ali's video.