Thus, Max has a large user base of programmers unaffiliated with Cycling '74 who enhance the software with commercial and non-commercial extensions to the
processing software tool, Max. Cycling '74 (C74) was founded in 1997 by David Zicarelli to serve as the distributor for his various collections of software. The
antivirus software may have missed, or to verify against any false positives. Files up to 650 MB can be uploaded to the website, or sent via email (max. 32MB)
further delayed recertification of the MAX. In early January 2020, an issue was discovered in the MAXsoftware update, which impacted its recertification