Ftm - Complex Data Structures for Max

This article presents FTM, a shared library and a set of modules extending the Max/MSP environment. It also gives a brief description of additional sets of modules based on FTM. The article particularly addresses the community of researchers and musicians familiar with Max or Max-like programming environments such as Pure Data. FTM extends the signal and message data flow paradigm of Max permitting the representation and processing of complex data structures such as matrices, sequences or dictionaries as well as tuples, MIDI events or score elements (notes, silences, trills etc.).