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

2. Download and install Java 13.

   • IMPORTANT: Some of Sparck's java externals/dependencies are compiled with Java13. A consequence is you need to have Java13 installed on your machine, which is the reason you need Max 8.2 installed, which has an updated internal mxj package, which can deal with Java versions beyond version 8.
   • On Windows the installation of openJDK13+ also requires editing the registry. Check out the ReadMe of max-mxj for detailed instructions.

3. Pull SPARCK to a suitable folder on your system and symlink it to the Max8 package folder. This way you can stay up to date with the development (which is happening on the development branch).

   • For OSX this is simple, just create an alias of the 'sparck' folder inside your git SPARCK repo and drop it in your ~/Documents/Max 8/Packages folder.

   • For Windows you need open a 'cmd' window and enter

   mklink /J "C:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Max 8\Packages\sparck" "C:\<your path to this repository>\sparck"
   

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 inside the Packages folder.