Cycling '74 Max: Howard Sandroff Recalls When It Was Opcode
December 14, 2007
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Howard Sandroff, the Director of Computer Music at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sound Art At Columbia College, remembers back to his days at Earcom in the mid 80's for the development of what we now know as Cycling '74 Max.
Max has been turned over quite a few times from Earcom to Opcode to Gibson to Cycling '74. He also remembers how Opcode transformed it from experimental programming to a commercial software program which should work all the time since people pay money for it. Sadly, software developers forget that sometimes these days.
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A couple of comments: Max was first developed at IRCAM (pronounced "Earcom"), the government-subsidized music research facility founded by Pierre Boulez. MIller Puckette was the principal developer, along with other, at IRCAM.
Between IRCAM and Opcode, Intelligent Music, where David Zicarelli worked and developed M, Jam Factory, and other interactive composition programs, had the rights to Max and actually began Max's development path from experimental research software to commercial product. Unfortunately, Intelligent Music went out of business before Max could be fully developed, and the rights were assumed by Zicarelli, who then went to Opcode to continue development. Zicarelli had earlier created one of the first Macintosh MIDI applications, a DX-7 editor-librarian, which was licensed by Opcode.
Max is named for Max Mathews.
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