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Now that’s my kind of Max patch UI. As designed by Keith A. McMillen; photo ([You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.]) [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.].
If you haven’t been following Max 5 updates, the folks at Cycling ‘74 have been aggressively bug squashing. The changelog for [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.]. (Via [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.], of [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.].)

And in other Max news, Expo74 will be a full-blown Max conference in April in San Francisco. You still have a few days to lock in the US$295 intro price (through 3/1). On the menu:

• C74-taught workshops for users: live looping, 3D, Max for Live, new timing objects, etc.
• Workshops for developers: C programming and the Max external API
• Special guest speakers, including Robert Henke — but also Miller Puckette, the creator of the original Max and developer of Cycling ’74’s open-source rival Pd.
• An afternoon on teaching Max
• A “Science Fair” for sharing projects
• Field trips
• A “Relationship Manager” - a sort of conference concierge - plus access to the C74 folks, a bit like the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference

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It’s good stuff. And the price seems a very reasonable deal for a conference.

You know, it also reminds me that some of the events around the open-source tools could be friendlier than they are. And we like [You cannot see the link as you're not logged in. Click here to login or here to register.]. I’m not sure that I’ll be able to make it out to California in April (I’ll be there in March for the Game Developer Conference), but eager to hear how this goes.

But speaking of open source, don’t want to spend April at an event for a proprietary tool? Prefer the East Coast to the West Coast? Like code better than patching? Like tools that begin with the letter “S” better than the letter “M”? Want tools that make you think of supermassive black holes? Oh, April in North America has you covered regardless of what you like. One moment while I write up another post…

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