Turning MAX creations into VST or AU

klaus's icon

Hi all. I'm looking for some updated information on ways to turn MAX 7 patches into VST or AU plugins. All the info I find seems to be outdated or no longer relevant. If any of you have any good links or info please post, it's appreciated. Thanks.

Dario's icon

vst export is only supported by Max 4.x and lower...
and you have to have the max runtime or pluggo runtime installed I believe if you want another person to use your vst.
Building VSTs in Max is unfortunately a waste of time in my humble opinion.
I wrestled with this problem for a while and eventually just decided to buy flowstone (formerly synthmaker) to build my VSTs
In my case I already learned a ton of stuff from Max that I was able to apply in Flowstone pretty easily.
I prefer Max but I think it's a damn shame you cant export to VST like you can in Flowstone...

dhjdhjdhj's icon

Wow, looks very cool although I'm very disappointed it's not available for Mac (and a little disappointed that it's using Ruby, a language I always liked but feel is being overtaken by Python)

Might have to play with it anyway. Thanks for the mention.

klaus's icon

Ok thanks for the heads up. Seems a shame.

Flowstone looks cool though, will look into it. Cheers.

Emmanuel Jourdan's icon

You might also want to check out gen~ exports capabilities.