I attended a paper session at the ICMC where aspects of jMax were presented.
It seemed to be a very ambitious project, but it is definitely not all
finished. jMax consists of FTS, a digital signal processing server written
in more or less platform-neutral code, and the user environment, which is
all written in Java. The two communicate using the Max byte stream protocol,
which has been beefed up with stronger typing. jMax clearly is an attempt to
preserve the Max environment in a backward-compatible manner while moving
forward into the synthesis server/client scripting model with a
cross-platform implementation.

I would consider switching to jMax or a similar system, except I'm mainly
interested in non-real-time synthesis, and Csound does almost everything I
need. jMax currently lacks the ability to create new instances of patches on
the fly to render overlapping notes; you have to preallocate as many as you
are going to need. This ability is planned for future versions of jMax,
however.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Bullock 
To: Csound List 
Date: Saturday, November 28, 1998 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Drew Skyfyre: Realtime PowerMac options]


>You might also want to check out jMax at http://www.ircam.fr/jmax/. The
>advantage for me personally is that unlike Max/MSP it is (supposed) to be
>multi-platform with imminent releases will be for IRIX and Linux, with Mac
>OS X and WinNT versions "envisaged" for 1999. This remains to be seen
>though, as the Beta releases don't even seem to be available yet... did
>anyone see the demonstrations at the AES convention or the ICMC?
>best wishes
>jamieB
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>On Thurs 26th Nov, Drew Skyfyre wrote
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>>Just thought I'd air out a few things regarding real-time
>>music software on the PowerMac. First, to be honest, I
>>put Csound aside a few months ago, since the performance
>>on PowerMac really started to put me off.
>>
>>I've recently been looking into other options.
>>
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