All For Musicians

While Live users are already embracing Max For Live, CDM’s Peter Kirn raises some interesting issues with the idea of developing for the platform:

   1. Max for Live doesn’t have a free run-time, which means it’s not your best option if you want to reach a wide audience with your creations.
   2. Max is no longer an option for people wanting to develop plug-ins for multiple hosts, a change that didn’t go over well with all developers partly because it was only revealed after Max 5 and Max for Live.
   3. Jitter output is crippled in Max for Live if you don’t also own Jitter.
   4. Max isn’t an open source tool, which has practical implications, including -
   5. You’ll want to choose something else if you’re interested in mobile music making.