Iain Duncan

Hi colleagues, I'm excited to announce that the first beta release of my csound6~ object for Max is now available for intel Mac, win64, or to build from source (M1 real soon). It's a minimal, modern csound object using the Csound6 API, and is largely based on Victor Lazzarini's object for PureData. This should allow better latency and performance than the legacy csound~ object and handle larger and more messages, but does not attempt to port all the features of the legacy csound~ object.

Features include real time score playing, audio input, event handling, score cueing, and real time modulation messages.

Limitations: Csound table reading and writing from Max and Max event output (from outvalue opcodes) are not yet implemented, but are planned. Csound midi opcodes are not supported and whether they will be is to be determined based on demand. Ksmps must be an even divisor of the Max signal vector size.

Binaries exist for Intel Mac only at the moment. The code should compile for Windows and Apple Silicon, but I could do with some help on both of those as I'm not a Windows developer and just got an M1. If you can help, please get in touch!

https://github.com/iainctduncan/csound_max

https://github.com/iainctduncan/csound_max/releases/tag/0.1-beta-mac-win64

Features include real time score playing, audio input, event handling, score cueing, and real time modulation messages. 

Project page:
https://github.com/iainctduncan/csound_max

Release:
https://github.com/iainctduncan/csound_max/releases/tag/0.1-beta-mac-win64

Hi colleagues, I'm excited to announce that the first beta release of my csound6~ object for Max is now available for intel Mac, win64, or t

new-csound6~-external-beta-up-intel-mac-binary

Hello Iain, just wanted to check in and see if there was any update on an M1 release. Tried to build from source, but didn't have any luck. Thank you for your hard work as always!

Hi, thanks for the reminder. I will find out if the M1 build is standard now for Csound, and if so, I should be able to rebuild it over the next couple of months!

You're awesome—appreciate the prompt replay as usual!

Hi Iain, thank you for very much for your csound6~ object!! 

I'm also very interested in a Max object that works with Mac M1, M2. i've just changed computers, and all my synthesizers are in csound and controlled by Max, so I'm very bored and blocked... I imagine it's a consequent job to rewrite an object to adapt it to the M series! ... That would be so great!!!

Hi Iain, thank you for very much for your csound6~ object!! 
I'm also very interested in a Max object that works with Mac M1, M2. i've just changed computers, and all my synthesizers are in csound and controlled by Max, so I'm very bored and blocked...  I imagine it's a consequent job to rewrite an object to adapt it to the M series! ... That would be so great!!!

Thanks for the reminder ANDRÉ, it's been a bit of a year, wrapping up my MMus and starting a PhD, but I should give this a crack again.

Thank you very much for your prompt reply Iain, I understand very well the situation!!

Hi friends, the M1 release is up now! Sorry that took so long to get to. I should be making some demos of playing with it with Scheme for Max this term too, so if you haven't checked out the s4m youtube channel, keep an eye out there.

https://github.com/iainctduncan/csound_max/releases/tag/0.2.1-mac-universal

Hi friends, the M1 release is up now! Sorry that took so long to get to.  I should be making some demos of playing with it with Scheme for Max this term too, so if you haven't checked out the s4m youtube channel, keep an eye out there.

Dear Iain, thank you so much, I can't wait to work with this new object, and be able to use my Csound synthesizers in max again!!

New csound6~ external beta up (intel Mac and win64)