New: Featured on Mac Informer!  1. Requirements: Intel Macintosh running OS X 10.5 or later (note: download from App Store requires OS X 10.6.6 or later) 2. Entering data without keyboard shortcuts: Each number box has three ways of entering data without using the keyboard shortcuts below. They are: 1) Clicking in the number box [...]

Users who upgrade to Max 5.1 may have heard of Max for Live and seen the new objects in the objects menu. However, you don’t need to purchase or run Max for Live in order to take advantage of some neat new objects. That’s not to say Max for Live isn’t worth buying, but more [...]

The world’s first user-programmable tilt interface for Macintosh has just been update to version 1.1.  A drastic addition has been made in the form of a new cability to exchange the X and Y Axes (see below).  This is particularly useful for the new Macbook Pro 15″ Unibody model, which according to one source has [...]

If your business is creating user interfaces in Max, then you might be interested in Tab Fader. It brings to your users the same fading colored tabs that they are accustomed to from today’s most popular Web 2.0 applications. You can view the brief tutorial video below to learn more about Tab Fader, and you [...]

Interface Fader lets you fade any interface object in and out.   You can copy and paste Interface Fader to any Max 5 patch.  Here is how it works: Step 1. Open patch Step 2. Put your fading interface elements behind the white panel. You can use Get Info to change the color of the [...]

The Golden Ratio (or Golden Mean) is an area indicated by a proportion based on the Fibonacci series [more info]. Since the Renaissance (and likely before), artists, architects, and composers have been aware of the importance of the Golden Mean and have used it in numerous works. Therefore, it’s only natural that we should be curious as [...]