Max/MSP
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 3, 2025first mention
Jul 1, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“And so is Max/MSP. And I'm very happy to continue paying these developers”
“the solution is to use Ableton Live w/Max/MSP”
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“They're great for coding synthesizers.”
Caveats and dissent
“a permanent piece for a museum using MaxMsp”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related? 2 mentions
- How to Synthesize a House Loop 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) 1 mention
- Ableton Extensions SDK 1 mention
- item 46734017 1 mention
- The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly 1 mention
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“Max/MSP”
“And so is Max/MSP. And I'm very happy to continue paying these developers”
Perhaps a silly question but any thoughts on Strudel? https://strudel.cc/
“a permanent piece for a museum using MaxMsp”
“the solution is to use Ableton Live w/Max/MSP”
“my audio project (Scheme for Max, an s7 interpreter in Max/MSP)”
“you can have very low level abstractions in visual programming (max msp)”
“LLMs have absolutely killed any interest I use to have in the max/pd/reaktor wiring up boxes UI.”
“They're great for coding synthesizers.”