The Evolution of the Graphic Editing Environment for the IRCAM Musical Workstation

Enzo Maggi (1) , François Déchelle (1)

1 Equipe Systèmes temps-réel

Since its introduction, the 'Max' programming language and real-time environment has had a continue evolution: it was separated from its computational engine (the FTS system), it evolved into a full featured industrial product (Max IRCAM/OpCode) and experienced a constant growth of its external modules library. From the beginning, Max had an object-oriented approach to the description of computations (patches) and to the extension of the system through external modules. Now, the Max paradigm is evolving again into a system that is capable of dealing with complex and more rich types of intercommunications, such as the ability of being a "part" into a compound document, and at the same time to communicate with fast real-time engines such as FTS.

Mots clés: FTS system (faster than sound); message-based logic; graph based execution; OpCode; object-oriented approach; MAX Ircam; MAX programming language

Mots clés: Informatique musicale

Domaines: Son [cs.SD]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Apprentissage [cs.LG]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur; Multimédia [cs.MM]; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]; Autre [cs.OH]

Enzo Maggi, François Déchelle. The Evolution of the Graphic Editing Environment for the IRCAM Musical Workstation. ICMC: International Computer Music Conference, 1996, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China. pp.1-1. ⟨hal-01157131⟩