Can't Unlock Vsynth Package Help Patches

Sam Goldburg's icon

I just downloaded the updated Vsynth package and I can't find a way to unlock the accompanying help patches. I don't have much experience with Max externals so maybe I'm overlooking something obvious ...

Any help would be appreciated!

2K's icon

Those patches aren't meant to be unlockable. Instead of copy pasting I recommend patching from scratch. Cheers!

Sam Goldburg's icon

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for sharing your work! It's a fantastic resource.

Out of curiosity, is that "level" of patch locking a native feature of Max's exporting utilities?

2K's icon

You can make any patch to behave like that by sending a "lockdown" message to the [thispatcher] object.

Quanta Tunne's icon

Max patches are actually plain text.
open that patch in Max using "Open As Text...", Find ...
replace "lockdown" with whatever
else like "lock-down", and save it.

Tale Twist's icon

It works. thanks for the suggestion quanta tunne.
cheers