Porting Max/MSP .app to iOS

I've read a number of posts on Apple's forums, and a number of posts on the Cycling '74 forums (with my own questions scattered around both) and nobody seems to be able to help me.

I used Max/MSP to write a 'patch' that takes samples and generates music. I'm going to release it as an album similar to Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon, but wanted to make it available to people so they can have the music last for more than the hour a CD can hold.

What I don't know how to do, and can't figure out is HOW. It looks just like a regular OS X app, and the only difference I see in the directory structure is that my Max/MSP made application has extra .framework folders as well as the objects I use (which I guess are similar to 'functions' in JScript). I've looked at the package contents of both OS X files and the unpacked .ipa files from the App Store. Being so similar I would imagine it'd be pretty easy.

Where do I start? Has anybody on this forum done this? Thanks for your time!

[edit] - I just wanted to let you know I've discovered RJDJ, an iOS app that allows users to create 'scenes' in Puredata (Pd) and load them on their RJDJ program. I'd rather not go this route.

[edit2] - ok. I agree that it's very different. Especially having 4 (i could cut it down to 3) additional frameworks that aren't part of the SDK. But Ive been thinking. I can add a JavaScript object inside of my program, or make a special new object (object in max is sort of like a class in JS, i think) using C. Is there anything in these languages that would be able to convert a simple 'touch' to a 'mouseclick' in my app?

My application is very very simple. Basically just samples, played at randomly generated time intervals with some a 'conductor' to bring in/out the groups the samples are drawn from (piano, fx, etc...). So the user just clicks the 'start' button and off it goes. So the .nib file I would need to create is very simple. In my head it seems like the .ipa package/ios .app both contain unix executables and so long as t开发者_JAVA百科hese are basically the same it should work, right?

Max6 has been released. A new object/concept named gen~ is available. As far as I discussed with C74 dev, I know gen~ WILL provide its source code output. This code produce by the gen~ object could be useable in any other framework. basically, it will be C++ So it would really open A LOT of possibilities ; Max becoming a real graphical framework producing output that can be used in programming world. It would save time for some part of the code.

As far as I can see from poking around at the Cycling '74 site and forums, there's currently no Max engine available for iOS. libpd is probably your best bet, really. (I'd note that the Inception app uses this Pure Data engine with a custom interface and it works very well.)

Unfortunately OSX and iOS apps are completely different under the hood. Outwardly they look similar (eg. you've noted the .app extension) but the internals are completely different.