MAX 7 Reference app

machweo · 2017-07-27T11:08:17.745Z

Hello guys,

I want to share with you this app I built for Android.
It’s a MAX 7 complete reference guide, there’s the description of every single MAX, MSP and JIT object.
It took me about 8 months to finish and it was a really hard work since I’m not a pro Java programmer.
I decided to keep it completely free though, it’s ads-free and works offline. It’s just a gift for the MAX community that helped me a lot in the past years.

play.google.com

Max Reference

Max Reference is a free, ad-free, offline complete Max Reference, you can browse through descriptions of over 1000 objects from MAX, MSP or JIT. You'll have the complete knowedge of every MAX 7 basic object in the palm of your hand. This is an unofficial app, it's not developed by Cycling '74, I'm just a guy with a passion for music and coding...

Free

I hope someone will find this app useful, every kind of feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Love,

G

Clubfrills · 2017-07-27T11:44:13.907Z

As someone still in the early stages of learning max, I think this will be super useful. Installing on my Pixel – if I run into any bugs I’ll be sure to let you know. Thanks!

_mark · 2017-07-27T11:58:31.247Z

Nice work - Works really well so far.

When I was starting to learn Max I printed the complete manual (I think there was a pdf around?) off and used to carry it on the bus! This would have helped then.

Having said that, poking through this is a nice distraction. And I just discovered bitsafe~ which I think I need…

Only thing I can suggest is a random pick button!

glia · 2017-07-27T13:44:30.884Z

bravo…excellent work!

I’m now checking around for a convenient/equivalent app for ios devices

drehleierguy · 2017-07-27T13:48:46.195Z

wonderful, thank you so much!

hamildad · 2017-07-27T16:52:17.663Z

I wanted something like this so much when I started out, I started trying to make my own using a study card app.

annoyingly I am no longer on android ( for the moment), but would be interested in a IOS version.

glia · 2017-07-27T17:20:53.085Z

[quote=“hamildad, post:6, topic:8675”]
I started trying to make my own using a study card app.
[/quote]Had not even thought of this

I have Anki and several other study apps for learning languages but hadn’t tried using any as resources for learning max…fantastic idea!

machweo · 2017-07-27T19:48:19.800Z

what is a study card app?

hamildad · 2017-07-27T20:30:25.467Z

I think the modern name is a flashcard app.

lei · 2017-07-28T09:33:00.969Z

I could definitely use something like this, sad I’m on iOS, great job nonetheless, looks clean and simple

AlessandroBonino · 2017-07-28T09:44:20.476Z

Grande. I will finally put that archived android device I have to good use.

machweo · 2017-07-28T18:00:02.468Z

thank you guys for the support and the nice words <3

saw · 2017-08-01T23:22:39.886Z

hamildad:

I wanted something like this so much when I started out, I started trying to make my own using a study card app.

annoyingly I am no longer on android ( for the moment), but would be interested in a IOS version.

Yeah, me too. I was crazy about having a reference in my iPad, so I can keep studying while on the road. Any idea of how could this be done?

_mark · 2017-08-02T12:40:25.572Z

I just dug out the pdf version I mentioned:

http://hcenteno.net/software/Max_6_PDF_Unofficial_Docs.pdf

Max 6, not half as nice as the app, but still better than nothing…

machweo · 2017-08-06T12:15:22.456Z

Unluckily I’m not a professional programmer, my knowledge is limited on what I learn when I need to do something, so actually I don’t know if I can make a porting for iOS or if I need to make the same app from scratch, even if it seems a very little app there’s a lot of work to do and I do it in my spare time but I promise I’m going to collect infos on how to make it and try to build MAX Reference app for iOS

bebopple · 2018-04-03T23:46:38.989Z

An app for learning Max is a very good idea. Seems like it might be something c74 would be interested in contributing their professional programming to… if you sent them a proposal and could demonstrate how interested people would be in this. I’m also an ios person unfortunately… Thanks for starting this…