Top 15 Max/MSP Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

Interactive visual programming environment for music, audio, and media

In use for over twenty years by performers, composers, artists, scientists, teachers, and students, Max is the way to make your computer do things that reflect your individual ideas and dreams.

Max gives you the parts to create unique sounds, stunning visuals, and engaging interactive media. These parts are called ‘objects’ – visual boxes that contain tiny programs to do something specific. Each object does something different. Some make noises, some make video effects, others just do simple calculations or make decisions. In Max you add objects to a visual canvas and connect them together with patchcords. You can use as many as you like. By combining objects, you create interactive and unique software without ever writing any code (you can do that too if you really want to). Just connect. ...

1. SonicBirth

SonicBirth SonicBirth is a visual design software for building Audio Unit plugins. It can be used both as a host within other DAW apps and as a tool to build and export plugins. It also comes bundled with compressors, reverbs and other plugins as well as pre-constructed circuits to help users......

2. marten

marten Graphical Programming for MacOSXThe Marten integrated software development environment (IDE) is a new, enjoyable way to create software for MacOS X. Graphical programming means you draw code, not write it. It's easier to create and easier to understand.But ease of use does not mean lack of power. The Marten IDE......

3. Microsoft Visual Programming Language

Microsoft Visual Programming Language Microsoft Visual Programming Language (VPL) is an application development environment designed on a graphical dataflow-based programming model. Rather than series of imperative commands sequentially executed, a dataflow program is more like a series of workers on an assembly line, who do their assigned task as the materials arrive. As a......

4. TREPL

TREPL TRE is an object-oriented, functional programming language. The main goal when designing it was to create a simple to use tool that will enable users to easily discover how computer programs work under the hood. It focuses on the concepts of the "heap" and the "stack", which are the basis......

5. Make Batch Files

Make Batch Files Easy to use visual builder for Windows batch files. No need to remember all of the commands and switches, just drag-and-drop commands and set parameters using dialog boxes.......

6. FlowStone

FlowStone FlowStone is a powerful, graphical programming tool that greatly expedites development with an intuitive and easy-to-use, live programming environment. It's uses extend to education, robotics, data acquisition, image and digital signal processing, home automation and much more.DEVELOP FASTERFlowStone uses a combination of graphical and text based programming. Applications are programmed......

7. Whilelse

Whilelse Whilelse is a software development system currently under development that aims to simplify programming by representing code as a graph instead of plain text and providing an efficient keyboard-centric editor.FEATURESFast codingSoftware development should not be done by fiddling with plain text, but by using a semantic editor that provides efficient......

8. Wavepot

Wavepot Wavepot is a live-coding environment for creating sound and music. Build sound and music compositions on-the-fly using JavaScript and save your projects right to GitHub.......

9. Usine Hollyhock

Usine Hollyhock Usine Hollyhock is a modular environment for live music and real-time installations. You can create and customize your live set to fit it exactly to your needs. Designed for spontaneous electronic music creation, including live sampling, effect processing, or sound design.Features:- 400 built-in modules- Ultra flexible library - Creative extended......

10. SuperCollider

SuperCollider A real time audio synthesis engine, and an object-oriented programming language specialised for music.SuperCollider was created in 1996 by James McCartney, Since version 3 it is released as free software.......

11. AppyBuilder

AppyBuilder Appybuilder is an alternative to App Inventor 2 and Thunkable web-based Android app development environments. Like its two competitors, it uses visual drag-and-drop code blocks and an Android screen layout image, plus an interactive connection to the working live app on an Android device. AppyBuilder was formerly called AILiveComplete. It......

12. GSAP

GSAP Ultra high-performance, professional-grade animation for the modern web using javascript. The new standard for HTML5 animation.FEATURESCrazy fast:Performance is paramount, especially on mobile devices with sluggish processors. Silky smooth animation is the hallmark of any tweening engine worth its weight and GSAP outperforms old “industry standards” by literally 1000%+ under stress.......

13. DRAKON

DRAKON DRAKON is a visual language and editor designed to be able to represent goal-based knowledge. The editor is incredibly intuitive, being powerful but still accessible even for new users, and it's available online and offline for Windows, Mac and Linux.The editor is built with and requires Tcl .EDITOR......

14. Kontakt GUI Maker

Kontakt GUI Maker KONTAKT GUI Maker is a visual interface builder for the popular and powerful Kontakt plugin. Easily construct your own instrument interfaces by simply dragging and dropping GUI elements onto the workspace.FEATURES- Super simple, drag-and-drop design.- Easily align elements automatically with a smart and intuitive grid.- Huge library of......

15. Visogram

Visogram Visogram is a tool that lets you create user interfaces and graphical programs directly in your browser. Visogram is purely built on web standards: Interfaces you create directly become accessible by a broad variety of devices like smartphones - all they need is a web browser.......