There’s a lot of calling out of specific hardware, plugins etc in the liner notes that was plucking my nostalgia strings (I got started with Max later on in '99, but used an older pirated version for the first few years until I could afford the real deal…) and I started trying to remember what was released when…
Anyway, long story short! Here’s a wonderful snapshot of the cycling74 website from 1998, detailing the new MSP add-on for Max, and is generally full of lots of great 90s computer music nostalgia (complete with tables listing the number of oscillators MSP can handle on various laptops)
That old website is amazing. I first got into Max while at school in 1999, but couldn’t afford a licence so ended up going the PD route. I always got a kick out of the credits page for MSP “based on PD by Miller Puckette” and how MSP are the same as Miller’s initials
I’m def feeling nostalgic for this era, even if I was only a fan at the time and not a user. The other day I almost bought some old Japanese Salon magazine issues about “glitch-noise” with max 4 patchers in them
On a similar old-max-patch note, it’s cool to see that the on;(do) netlabel still has these v4 max pieces available on their site: http://ondomusic.com/soft.html
