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Max 9: new coding and livecoding, new visuals, and Ableton’s sound tools
Max 9 is available today, bringing benefits for casual tinkerers and hardcore devs alike. There’s more code, more performance, more livecoding, more visual powers, and – one more thing: you get the building blocks Ableton uses for sound.
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Max 8.6: Samplers, gamepads, colors, Max for Live, and more
Cycling ’74’s Max 8.6 is out now, bringing a ton of fun, musical stuff to the open-ended music and media toolbox. That includes major updates for anyone working with Ableton Live, but plenty for everyone else, too. And if you’ve got a gamepad, you can plug that in and start playing right away.
Peter Kirn - January 17, 2024
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Watch Videosync visuals in Ableton Live, plus Beam for lighting, Max
If you missed it earlier this fall, Tarik Barri has a great walkthrough of Videosync, the live visual software integrated with Ableton Live on the Mac. Bonus – from the same dev, Beam lets you perform live with lighting, and we can see that in action, too – plus there’s an early-bird edition just for Max.
Jitter 8.5 and GLCore join other major updates to Max in 2022, with advanced live visuals
Peter Kirn - November 7, 2022
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Set today’s solar eclipse to sound, with music picks, data, and NASA
Peter Kirn - August 21, 2017
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Exclusive: Ableton acquires Max maker Cycling ’74; what you need to know
Peter Kirn - June 6, 2017
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