Re:Microsoft MakeCode
by ssalazar on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @09:54PM
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Max/MSP and TouchDesigner are used heavily in creative industry, especially related to large-scale "experiences" that marketing agencies throw in urban spaces.
Max/MSP is interesting because it was originally created under the auspices of a publicly funded French organization (IRCAM) before being commercialized.
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Max/MSP has been around for a long time too. I've got a magazine article from 1997 about how U2 used Max to drive everything on their PopMart & Zoo TV tours. Not just the lighting & video screens, but also controlling the synthesizers & the effects pedals routing on The Edge's guitar for different songs. The whole show was run from a single Macintosh Quadra 650 running Max (though they kept a second Quadra 650 booted in case the first one crashed during the show). [The article was "U2 Live! The computers behind PopMart" by John Krogh, in the Nov/Dec 1997 issue of Music & Computers.]