Issues Editing An Old Max Patch
Hey,
So after a few years I have reinstalled Max in hopes of getting back into it. A few years ago I made an FM synth and it was saved as a "Max Collective" file. I just tried to open it up again but cannot edit anything. I have an up to date license. Am I missing something?
collective is a sealed non-editable file format.
Are you on Mac ?
And which version of max was used to make it ?
from max 6 and up, max patches and collectives are plain text readable.
You can open renamed copy of that collective in text edit and remove
code before first bracket and save it.
rename extension from .mxf to .maxpat .
That modified file can be opened and saved, which will remove everything
except main patch and embedded subpatches.
If you are on windows then you need some text editing app that will not mess text encoding.
If you can't do any of that, post the mxf file.
Thank you so much! I used EditPad on windows since notepad kept giving max console errors.