MAX 8

A Playground for Invention

Max is an infinitely flexible space to create your own interactive software.

Connect Ideas Together to Create

• Each object does something. Max has objects that generate sound waves, represent hardware, or provide a UI for interaction.

• Patchcords connect one object to another. This connection lets objects share their output with connected objects.
• Connect UI objects like dials and sliders to provide control values or display results. Modulate, map and scale data to get just the right results.

Max 8 Features

• Tap into sonic complexity with MC
• Noticeably improved performance
• Simplified MIDI and keyboard control with Mappings
• Vizzie 2, completely rebuilt with OpenGL
• Open your patches to the world with Node for Max
• Experience a streamlined patching workflow
• Uncover the secrets to Max mastery with search
• 37 more features including VST3 and Gen for events

Make Sound Visible

Artists use Jitter to create genre-defying interactive visuals combined with the audio and automation tools in Max. Jitter lets you break apart videos, animate abstract forms, and explore the relationship between sound and visuals.

Jitter also includes objects that capture audio and translate it into visual data, or convert video information into audio signals, or combine these elements however you like.

Build Your Own Visual Instrument

With Jitter you can approach video and graphics like building a musical instrument. Jitter objects can be controlled with Max messages and integrated with audio data from Max, so you can use the same MIDI hardware mapping, envelope following, and modulation approaches in Max to control your visuals.

Bring Your Own Media

Jitter supports loading and playback for a wide range of image and video file types, 3D models and material formats. This means you can bring your own source materials and combine them with the interactive realtime tools in Jitter to create software built around your own vision.

The Limitless Possibilities of Max – inside Live

Max for Live gives you a blank slate to patch together your own musical tools that work seamlessly inside the Live environment. Create your own Instrument, Midi Effect, or Audio Effect that does exactly what you want, or customize an existing device with your own adjustments. Max for Live also provides the ability to control your Live Set using the Live API.