Algomusic has released MaxScore, a Max object which accepts messages that can create a score, add notes to it, transform them, perform it, save and load the score, as well as export the score to popular formats for professional publishable results.
Description:
MaxScore is more than a notation tool. It is an interactive performance object. MaxScore [...]

Steppers are an interesting music controller designed for 5-year olds:
As a group, we hoped to make a toy that not only encouraged physical activity, but that also acted a clear and direct musical interface.
Steppers transform walking, dancing, running, and jumping into a unique and dynamic activity, allowing the user to express themselves audibly through their [...]

Art Institute of Chicago student Chris Burke plays the “Interactopus,” an interactive sculpture controlling sound and live video through eight light sensors, an art bus board, and max/msp/gem.

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 [...]

Jesse Kriss and DJ Axel Foley have put together an interesting collection of Visual Scratch videos:
We capture turntable velocity using Ms. Pinky and fader position using an Ecler Nuo 4. The scratching sound is generated in Max/MSP. Then we scale the control data (turntable and fader) to ±1.0, the range of digital audio signals. The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]