Wilber

Apologies for the uninteresting post. Ive been away from Max for a year or so and am just getting back into it, ive found that i cant copy and paste the text patches posted on the forum anymore.

To be more specific i can copy but when i open a new patcher i have no paste, which is a bit of a bummer!

Im putting this down to the fact that im still using 4.6 and everyone else got all Max 5'd on my ass!?!

Could anyone confirm or am i just missing something even more obvious!

Apologies for the uninteresting post. Ive been away from Max for a year or so and am just getting back into it, ive found that i cant copy and paste the text patches posted on the forum anymore.
To be more specific i can copy but when i open a new patcher i have no paste, which is a bit of a bummer!
Im putting this down to the fact that im still using 4.6 and everyone else got all Max 5'd on my ass!?!

max-5-vs-4-6-problem

Max5 uses a new format for patches, not readable by Max4.

The only way (that I know) to get around this is to use the Max5-to-Max4 converter that Fredrik Olofsson kindly wrote in SuperCollider:

http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/pages/code-sc.html

It's easy to use, just download, open the help file with SC and follow the instructions.

format is, as its title suggests, max 5 only. You can download a 30 day free demo which will open these files though. There is also a super collider patch that can convert .maxpat files to .pat files, which is useful for when people post attachments but unfortunately it doesn't work with this compressed text format.

Maybe C74 will provide one day a neat "Ma5-compressed-text-decompressor" so max4 users can save the patch and convert it ? =)

gusanomaxlist wrote on Fri, 27 March 2009 11:33

Cycling '74 has said many times that they have no intention of doing anything like this. But that's no reason not to ask.

gusanomaxlist wrote on Fri, 27 March 2009 11:33
Maybe C74 will provide one day a neat "Ma5-compressed-text-decompressor" so max4 users can save the patch and convert it ? =)

Cycling '74 has said many times that they have no intention of doing anything like this. But that's no reason not to ask.


Thanks for confirming this for me! think ill have to start saving the pennies, Ma5 is very pretty so i wont begrudge it too much!

ah bums.
Thanks for confirming this for me! think ill have to start saving the pennies, Ma5 is very pretty so i wont begrudge it too much!

I think Frederik Olofsson wrote a max5-max4 convertor in SuperCollider (yarrr!), go here:

and it's on the list. I've never used it so I don't know how good it is. And I don't think it works from the compressed patch-form used to post here.

and it's on the list.  I've never used it so I don't know how good it is.  And I don't think it works from the compressed patch-form used to post here.

One thing it needs, is that Max Runtime would understand the compressed patches. That way anybody could see their functionality and repatch them in max 4. Would be a good excersise as well (and would encourage for sure enough to jump on the Max 5 waggon to pay off the effort...)

think im just gonna suck it up and raid the credit card!

That would be a great idea!
think im just gonna suck it up and raid the credit card!
thanks for all your suggestions chaps!

Max 5 vs 4.6 problem