What does MSP stand for in Max?

Called Max/MSP (“Max Signal Processing”, or the initials Miller Smith Puckette), it remains the most notable of Max’s many extensions and incarnations: it made Max capable of manipulating real-time digital audio signals without dedicated DSP hardware.

What is Max MSP good for?

Max allows you to create your own software using a visual toolkit of objects, and connect them together with virtual patch cords. The basic environment that includes MIDI, control, user interface, and timing objects is called “Max.” The audio processing tools comprise the companion software, MSP.

Is Max MSP coding?

Max (previously referred to as Max/MSP/Jitter) is a visual programming language developed by Cycling ’74. It has become one of the most prominent coding environments for experimental musicians, composers, and visual artists over the last 20 years.

Is there a free version of Max MSP?

For new downloads, Max 8 is free for 30 days.

What is Max MSP patch?

Another way to think of a MSP signal network is as a portion of a patch that runs at a faster (audio) rate than Max. Max, and you the user, can only directly affect that signal portion of the patch every millisecond. What happens in between those millisecond intervals is calculated and performed by MSP.

What language is Max MSP in?

C
Max/Written in

What is Max runtime?

The maximum runtime can be a fixed value, be based on the estimated runtime including a deviation percentage, or a predetermined time period that begins when the task starts. The following reactions are possible if maximum runtime is exceeded: Cancel or end the monitored task (see table below).

What is a Max MSP patch?

The type of patch cord depends on the kind of Max objects being connected (Max, MSP, or Jitter). Max lets you draw segmented patch cords — connections that have joints or corners. You can have both kinds of patch cords in the same patch, and convert one kind of patch cord to another.