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I attached pattr to a matrix controller that I was using as a drum machine and for some reason I can't open up my patch anymore. Is there anybody that knows how I can possibly save this file??

I attached pattr to a matrix controller that I was using as a drum machine and for some reason I can't open up my patch anymore.  Is there anybody that knows how I can possibly save this file??


saving-a-patch

open as text destroy the pattr object that you suspect is causing the 

problem, save as different patch... try openning this new patch as 

> I attached pattr to a matrix controller that I was using as a drum 

> machine and for some reason I can't open up my patch anymore. Is 

> there anybody that knows how I can possibly save this file??

open as text destroy the pattr object that you suspect is causing the 
problem, save as different patch...  try openning this new patch as 
usual.

> I attached pattr to a matrix controller that I was using as a drum 
> machine and for some reason I can't open up my patch anymore.  Is 
> there anybody that knows how I can possibly save this file??


I can't open as text because I only have the mxb file. I open that and all I get is crazy symbols.

Go into max and then do the open as txt thing, shouldnt come up as symbols, should be standard max code. Then just find the pattr object and eradicate it! if that doesnt work, might be worth looking for loadbangs and stuff, they can also cause problems too.

Go into max and then do the open as txt thing, shouldnt come up as symbols, should be standard max code. Then just find the pattr object and eradicate it! if that doesnt work, might be worth looking for loadbangs and stuff, they can also cause problems too.
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i think you can select "open as text" from the File menu in max, and it 

> I can't open as text because I only have the mxb file. I open that 

i think you can select "open as text" from the File menu in max, and it 
will open an .mxb file as .pat text. 

> I can't open as text because I only have the mxb file. I open that 
> and all I get is crazy symbols.


ahhh, good to know. Thanks. I ended up rewriting it. I forgot that i had a smaller version of what I was working with. Thanks for the help though. That'll help me next time :)

ahhh, good to know.  Thanks.  I ended up rewriting it.  I forgot that i had a smaller version of what I was working with.  Thanks for the help though.  That'll help me next time :)


saving a patch