Installation

There are three flavors of SPARCK:

1. The standalone app. This allows you to run SPARCK without any need to install any other libraries.
2. Running the app inside Max. There is no need for a Max license. This is interesting if you want to work with the latest development.
3. The SPARCK package for creating Max patches based on SPARCK nodes. This allows to use the full power of Max in combination with SPARCK. This requires a Max8 license.

Instructions for flavor 1.

Releases exists for Windows 10 and OSX. Download the relevant zip for your operating system and follow the instructions. The Windows installer has no code certificate, you can find here a tutorial on how to install it.

Instructions for flavor 2. and 3.

1. Download and install Max 8.2. Start it for the first time. This creates the required file structures.

2. Download and install Java 8 JRE or higher.

   • On OSX the AZUL intallers are recommended: scroll down the page to find the latest JDK and choose .dmg to download
   • On Windows this might require additionaly to follow these Java installation instructions.

3. Pull this git repo SPARCK into the Max8 package folder (~Documents/Max 8/Packages).

4. Restart Max and then go to Menu > File > Show Package Manger and search for the SPARCK package and launch it.

5. Upon starting SPARCK for the first time, it will check if all the required packages are installed. If not, a popup windows appears and you need to install the packages via package manager.

   1. The only exception is the ossia package, which you need to download and install manually into the packages folder.