Open a Max patch in Puredata (Pd)?
I'm sure I did this a couple of months ago but i can't remember how. Is there some way, however messy, to open a Max patch in Pd? It doesn't matter if some objects are missing, i just want the bulk of the structure, so i don't have to copy the whole structure by eye....
Purdata will open the old .pat files which were in use through Max 4. Read here.
There is an old Supercollider patch that converts from Max 5 (maxpat) to Max 4 (pat) files. Whether it still works is anyone's guess, but you could try and report back.
all my approaches (including super collider) towards converting a patch failed badly! i always ended up doing the conversion by hand :)
would be interested to hear how you managed in the first place! let us know if you remember
Thanks Robin, that sort of works converting from Max 5 to Max 4, though not from 6 or 7. The resulting patch is a bit of a mess, but will save me a bit of mousing.
Max 5 can open and resave max 6 or 7 patches, some functions will
differ, but most of the stuff gets saved correctly.