# micknoise/Maximilian

C++ Audio and Music DSP Library

Repository: https://github.com/micknoise/Maximilian
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/maximilian
Homepage: http://www.maximilian.strangeloop.co.uk
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-01-04T15:58:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5489, "days_push": 606, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1699, forks 284 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:24.167777+00:00)

## What it is
Maximilian is a cross-platform C++ audio synthesis and signal processing (DSP) library with JavaScript bindings for Web Audio. It provides oscillators, filters, effects, sample playback, granular synthesis, and real-time MIR analysis, running from desktops to browsers and embedded systems.

## Use cases
- synthesize audio and music in C++
- build a browser-based audio app with Web Audio
- do real-time spectrum analysis and MFCC feature extraction
- run granular time-stretch and pitch-shift on audio samples
- generate sound on ESP32 or Raspberry Pi Pico
- apply delay, chorus, flanger, and distortion effects
- mix multichannel audio for 1, 2, 4, or 8 speaker setups

## When to choose
- you need a dependency-free, MIT-licensed C++ DSP library
- you want the same synthesis code across native, browser, and embedded targets
- you need real-time MIR features like MFCCs or Bark scale analysis
- you're teaching or prototyping audio synthesis with OpenFrameworks

## When to avoid
- you need a full DAW or sequencer rather than a DSP library
- you require GPU-accelerated or offline mastering-grade audio processing
- you rely on the deprecated ScriptProcessorNode examples instead of AudioWorklet
- you need extensive plugin formats like VST/AU hosting

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: audio-processing, machine-learning
- domain: media, cross-platform
- platform: cpp, windows, browser, wasm, embedded
- tags: dsp, audio-synthesis, music-information-retrieval, web-audio, granular-synthesis, openframeworks, esp32, audio, macos, linux, ios

## Member repositories
- micknoise/Maximilian (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:24.167777+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:37:47.966907+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/micknoise/Maximilian (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:24.167777+00:00, sha ac499910374f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.