REAL TIME VISUALS & SOUNDS // INTERACTIVE PROGRAMMING What is Max – Cycling74? Max is a nodal programing environment that allows it’s users to visually connect elements to handle data, visuals and sounds in patchers. It’s mainly aimed at digital arCsts and was first designed by Miller PuckeHe in IRCAM in Paris in the late 80s. Then the rights were bought buy David Zicarelli in 97 who created a company named Cycling’74 around it. Then lately, in June 2017, Ableton, the developers of LIVE, acquired Cycling’74. At first it could only process and generate midi data to control synthesizers then as computers grew in power, it acquired several other abiliCes such as digital sound processing, video processing allowing computer vision and video playback mixing and later 3d all in real-Cme. A very acCve community also develops and shares libraries that expends the integrated funcCons of the all of the above can be interconnected seamlessly making it a very powerful tool for real-Cme performances and interacCve installaCons.
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