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Max was developed at the Institut de Recherche et de Coördination Acoustique/Musique
(IRCAM) in Paris, beginning in late 1986. The principal author of Max is Miller Puckette, a
native of Tennessee who was trained as a mathematician and has been at the forefront of real-time
computer music applications for a number of years. Originally a non-graphical language
intended to control IRCAM’s powerful 4X synthesizer, Max was later implemented as a
graphical environment for MIDI on the Macintosh. The present version of Max has been
further developed by David Zicarelli since July of 1989.