As you can read it on the copyright header of MSP :

MSP is developed by David Zicarelli (C) and is using PD from Miller
Puckette (Copyright the Regents of the University of California). It is
based on ideas in FTS (copyright IRCAM). It runs with Max 3.5 (copyright
IRCAM / Opcode Systems)

This is for the legal stuff. Now some technical infos :

1 - MSP is a set of external objects in Max 3.5.8 and more on the MacOS.

More infos and download : www.ircam.fr/msp

2 - FTS is the IRCAM Real-time DSP software engine first developped by
Miller Puckette for the ISPW (Ircam/Ariel boards for the NeXT Cube) and now
available on Silicon Graphics. To get it, subscribe to the Forum Ircam :

www.ircam.fr/forum

The current interface for FTS is Max (Ircam version for X-Windows).

A new JAVA interface is coming in April. The complete environment is called
jMax. It will run on SGI, Linux and Rhapsody (when Apple will make it
available). Windows port will follow.

3 - MSP is not working on top of FTS but it provides a compatility library
allowing to transfer patches and applications one way and the other.



Vincent Puig
IRCAM
1 place Igor Stravinsky
75004 Paris
France
Tel: 01 44 78 49 59
Fax: 01 44 78 15 40
email : puig@ircam.fr