Max 5 is now available for download. A 30-day demo download is available that combines Max & Jitter.
Max is an interactive programming environment for music, audio, and media. Jitter is a set of video, matrix, and 3D graphics objects for Max.
Max is a true cross-platform system compatible with both Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista.
Max/MSP/Jitter […]

Cycling 74’s Darwin Grosse has announced the release date for the latest version of Max, Max 5:
I’m pleased to announce a release date for Max 5. This new version will be available as a download on April 22nd, with packaged versions available shortly thereafter. Compatible versions of MSP and Jitter will be released at the […]

This video demos an adaptive use musical interface designed to let people with disabilities make music.
That’s a noble goal by itself - but I can imagine electronic musicians having fun with this, too.
There’s a commercial product with some similar features, Hipno, from Cycling 74.
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Musikmesse: Ableton and Cycling ’74 today announced a strategic partnership. The two will join forces to create new software products for the creative community, leveraging their skills, technologies and combined thirty years of experience.
“We are excited to team up with our friends at Cycling ’74,” said Ableton CEO and cofounder Gerhard Behles. “David Zicarelli has […]

AES: Cycling ‘74 today demonstrated the recently released version 1.5 software for JazzMutant Lemur control surface. The update is available via download to all current Lemur customers. New software features in version 1.5 allow the Lemur to control many popular DAWs including Logic, Digital Performer, Live and Cubase.
JazzMutant Lemur is a hardware controller for new […]

Cycling ‘74 has published a tutorial on using ReWire to move MIDI and audio data between programs on a computer. It’s by Darwin Grosse, one of their development gurus and the publisher of the Creative Synth site.
It written from the Max/MSP perspective and demonstrates how you can create patches controlled by the host app.

Cycling ‘74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today released Pluggo v. 3.6, Hipno v. 1.1, Mode v. 1.3 and UpMix 1.1 which add Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macs.
The plug-in collections are for RTAS, VST and AU host environments.
Pluggo offers over 100 creative and unusual real-time audio effects and a set of elegant and […]

Cycling ‘74, a San Francisco-based music software company, has released Max/MSP v. 4.6 and Jitter v. 1.6 which add Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macs.
Max, a graphical programming environment for music and media applications, allows its users to schedule events with millisecond accuracy, create complex mappings for incoming data, and run a large number of […]

Cycling ‘74, a San Francisco-based music software company, today released Soundflower v. 1.2 which adds Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macs.
Soundflower is a free system extension that allows users to route audio between OS X Core Audio applications. It also lets you monitor any connection with the free Soundflowerbed application.
Cycling ‘74 originally developed Soundflower as […]

At the NAMM 2006 Winter Show, held recently in Anaheim, California, Cycling ‘74 had its core apps, Max, MSP and Jitter, running on an Intel-based Macintosh OS X system.
We talked with Cycling’s Darwin Grosse about the new versions. He said that they were running on one of Apple’s Intel development boxes. He also noted that […]

2006 Winter NAMM Show: Cycling ‘74, a San Francisco-based music software company, demonstrated UpMix, a surround processing and upmixing software package for VST and RTAS formats on both MacOS and Windows platforms. The flagship plug-in, named UpMix, provides functionality that can speed the repurposing of stereo audio content into a surround environment. By providing a […]

Cycling ‘74 has introduced Hipno 1.0, a new suite of over forty effects and instrument VST plug-ins for VST, AU (Mac only) and RTAS host applications. The package features a mix of granular, spectral, and filter/delay-based plug-ins featuring the unique Hipnoscope user interface.
Also included in the package is a set of processors that utilize live […]

Cycling ‘74 has announced the release of Jitter version 1.5, a major upgrade to its video, matrix and 3D graphics objects for the Max/MSP graphical programming environment.
Jitter is a set of 150 video, matrix, and 3D graphics objects for the Max graphical programming environment. The Jitter objects extend the functionality of MaxMSP with flexible means […]

Cycling ‘74, a software company based in San Francisco, today announced the release of Momentary Incursions, the fourth volume in the Cycles series of audio source libraries.
Produced and edited by sound designer Ron MacLeod, Momentary Incursions consists of hits, events, effects and transitions for use when a more finite punctuation is needed. This collection of […]

Cycling ‘74 has announced the release of Mode for Windows. This package of native audio processing plug-ins is now available on Windows XP for host applications supporting the VST and RTAS formats. The package features three instruments and two effects units that integrate functions and performance controls typically found in rack-mount and workstation hardware. An […]