Cycling 74 Max 6

Unleash Your Creativity, and Your Potential

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Cycling 74's Max 6 is a veritable playground for musicians, sound designers, and multimedia wizards that want unlimited creativity. Max 6 is an environment that allows you to create your own sound generators, effects processors, video manipulators, sequencers... if you can imagine it, you can probably create it within Max 6. And with new integrated tutorials and documentation and a searchable database of objects and examples, Max 6 is the easiest version of Max to get started with. If you enjoy the creative possibilities of designing your own audio effects processors, synthesizers, and all manner of multimedia, then Cycling 74's Max 6 is for you.

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The Max 6 environment lets you create a chain or matrix of different "objects", each of which perform a specific function. You don't need to know anything about coding to use Max, and the included tutorials help you get up to speed fast by showing you how to make commonly used devices like a polyphonic synth or an LFO. There are over 150 objects to play with, and the potential is only limited by your imagination.

MSP is a set of tools within Max 6 specifically designed for audio processing. You can build your own custom synthesizer, then design a control interface you can use to control it with any type of controller you can connect to your computer - even a video game controller. Create your own effects processors - delays, filters, and modulators are just the beginning. Or create a chain of processors to split your audio signal into 473 different bands, phase-invert every odd-numbered band, then multiply the even-numbered bands by pi to create a... we're not sure what that would create actually, but if you want to you can do it in Max 6!

Jitter lets you create and manipulate video and graphics directly within Max 6. You can bet that with tools such as spatial effects, colorspace conversion, and spacial warping, you'll be coming up with video effects a lot more interesting than "sepia"! And since Jitter works within the Max environment, you can use your audio to affect your video, or use your video to manipulate your audio effect parameters, or even convert audio and video streams directly into geometry data to render kaleidoscopic 3D graphics. Seriously amazing, and seriously addictive.

• Flexible object-based environment lets you unleash your creative potential
• Create your own audio effects processors and sound generators
• Download Max 6 patches created by other users, and share your own creations with the Max 6 community
• Create devices that let you use any computer peripheral as a control device for your Max 6 creations
• Create stunning, interactive combinations of audio, video, and graphics