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Hi, I have been using Max for strictly musical purposes, but would now like to take a few of my interactive patches into the classroom environment. I ideally I would like to be able to use it as a test tool, with the user signing in, and storing the data and "scores" collected from that user while playing with the patch in a location they do not have access to. I have seen some examples in the real world of this with Max, but am having trouble finding where it might be in the documentation. So I am not looking for answers, just any pointing in the right direction would be great!

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What do you have to store? There is [pattrstorage] if it is more like a preset, or [coll], or [dict] if it is something else, [seq] if it is a sequence you want to record. They can all save a file on disk and recall it later, when you need it.

What do you have to store? There is [pattrstorage] if it is more like a preset, or [coll], or [dict] if it is something else, [seq] if it is a sequence you want to record.  They can all save a file on disk and recall it later, when you need it.


As Musinou says, [pattrstorage] can be useful in this context. I have used it before to save presets and form a unique filename, then FTP the json files to a web server with [jit.uldl]. A similar approach with simple text files with [text], or [coll] can work too, if you use [dialog] to get them to enter their username then you can use it to form the filename etc. By appending data to a coll with a metro I have used it like a recorder before, that could work for scores, but I daresay the 'Bach' package has options for recording scores and possibly outputting them as some kind of transferable file, maybe [bach.roll]?

Thank you for your responses, they are extremely helpful!

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