2016-02-20 20:53 GMT-02:00 Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>: > One last question: > Does Max/MSP retain all the same class interfaces for version 4/5 classes > in later versions of Max/MSP? For example, is Max 7 guaranteed to be > backwards compatible with all the internal classes of Max 4.5? >
Lets go as low as 4.6, version from the time of cyclone's release. I, for one, haven't found any backwards compatibility issue yet. All I see is objects respecting backwards compatibility and including a few new features. Examples: - maximum buffer allowed in buffir~ is now 4096 samples instead of 256. - [wave~] first offered no interpolation (0) or linear interpolation (1), now offers 4 other interpolation methods (2-6) I did search around, I haven't mapped all changes possible one by one, I focused on important objects and found a few things, not much. I mean to say it's probably not too crazy like them updating every object at every new release. Most are still the same in Max 7 as they were in 4.6! I did share all features to be included so objects could be updated, the number it's like new features for 4 or 5 objects... Now, when implementing new objects that were present in 4.6, one has no good reason to go back to version 4.6 instead of checking Max 7 to clone the new version without even bothering if it is different than before... Don't know how many of the objects I suggested are also Max6+, pong might be the very only one... cheers
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