A Set of 80+ Externals for a variety of tasks in Cycling 74's Max by Alex Harker
Overview:
- general purpose scaling for Max and MSP
- efficient partitioned + non-partitioned convolution
- comprehensive descriptor analysis (realtime + non-realtime)
- enhanced audio multi-threading / dynamic patch loading
- efficient buffer playback and storage
- high quality random number generators for Max and MSP
- sample accurate voice management and more
- thread debugging and switching
- utility objects
- SIMD versions of 35 basic MSP objects
AHarker Externals:
- support Mac and Windows in 64bit, including support for Apple Silicon (M1) processors.
- are licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.
Enjoy!
Alex
- At this time alpha releases are available via GitHub releases.
- Until official release some objects interfaces may change.
- Please note that the behaviour of descriptors~ / descriptorsrt~ may differ from earlier versions.
- Please report any issues with the issues page on GitHub.
This repositiory uses submodules. Make sure these are correctly cloned/updated before trying to build. Should you wish to build the externals yourself you will require the following:
Mac:
- Xcode
Notes
- AVX / SSE support can also be toggled in projects/ah_projects_config/config_mac.xcconfig (for old machines, or Rosetta 2 support).
Windows:
- Visual Studio
- OneMKL - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/onemkl-download.html
Alternatively you can generate projects and build via cmake by following the commands below (requires cmake in addition to the above, and python on windows for the MKL installation):
Mac:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -GXcode
cmake --build . --config ReleaseWindows:
In this case OneMKL is installed via a python script (rather than the installer above)
mkdir build (or New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path build) # use the latter if in Powershell
python source/scripts/install_mkl.py # once to install mkl
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config ReleaseWith thanks to shakfu (https://github.com/shakfu) for providing cmake support