What Is Max/MSP/Jitter

From Interactivity

"Max is a graphical multimedia programming environment. It was originally developed by Miller Puckette as a MIDI mediation language at IRCAM, and is now currently maintained and sold by David Zicarelli's company Cycling'74.

It is an ideal environment for developing two kinds of applications: realtime processing of data, such as serial input, MIDI messages, sound, video, 3D and system messages; and mapping data from one format to another in wildly creative ways."

- Josh Goldberg

1. Max
   • Core Midi programming
   • Simple user-interface (UI) elements
2. MSP
   • Signal processing (audio data)
   • Audio filtering
   • Audio generation (tones, waveforms)
   • Audio playback and recording
3. Jitter
   • Video data processing
   • Video effects
   • 3D (OpenGL)
   • complex UI elements