Doepfer

> with Max before and they work. I used on screen sliders for the 
> note values, but the Drehbank would work much better. I have the 
> older Max (pre-

Ircam (the original MAX/MSP developers)
have developed an opensource version of 
MAX for Java.  They call it JMAX. 

You can find it here:
http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/temps-reel/jmax/en/index.php3

user info for JMAX on Mac OSX here:
http://artengine.ca/jmax/howto-macosx.html

and JAMX on Windows here:
http://www.hanappe.org/jmax.html

I think you can also run JMAX on
Linux and Irix.

Enjoy!

Ethan