Max 9

A Playground for Invention

Max 9 brings a more immediate and transparent experience that expands your creative reach. With audio objects built on Ableton’s ABL library, the most significant Jitter advancement in years, a refreshed interface, and thoroughly reworked coding workflows, Max 9 opens the door to faster exploration, deeper control and inspiring possibilities for sound and visuals.

Max 9 encourages a more fluid way of working, supports more ambitious ideas, and gives you the clarity and precision to shape your projects exactly the way you envision them.

Features

• ABL audio objects offering Ableton sound inside Max

• Modern Javascript V8 integration for faster and more flexible coding

• Codebox available across JS V8 Gen Node and OSC workflows

• V8 JS objects supporting modern language features and higher performance

• Jitter geometry system for realtime 3D creation

• jit.fx library for streamlined shader based visual effects

• In window Jitter UI objects for kiosk and fullscreen interaction

• Updated 3D widgets for direct scene editing

• ReSTIR global illumination and advanced scene rendering features

• Post production friendly fixed delta animation mode

• Parameter Connect for patchcord free control linking

• Global OSC settings with automatic parameter availability

• List View for fast object navigation and editing

• Syntax coloring for clearer patch readability

• Global Record Button for instant audio capture

• Preset mixing through nodes integration

• Command line style patch control with the REPL input

• Illustration Mode for slow motion patch visualization

• Expanded online tutorials examples and documentation

• Loudness object based on EBU R 128

• Improved HID support with the hid object

• Updated media and file browsing in the toolbar

• Clue display offering quick access to relevant documentation

• CPU and FPS monitoring in the toolbar

• Multichannel meters on the volume control

• Refined Preferences window for easier navigation

• Patching Margin for more comfortable editing near window edges

• Aspect ratio control for patcher window capture

Mac:

• macOS 11.0 or higher
• Apple Silicon processor
• Intel Core i5 or higher 

Windows:

• Windows 10 or higher
• Intel Core i5 or higher
• AMD multi-core processor
• 64-bit