How to Send a Max Patch by Email

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You can send a Max patch (or any selected objects from it) to someone else as plain text in an email (or a post like this) by following these steps.

1. In Max, while in Edit mode, select the objects you want to include (or type Command-A to Select All).

2. Choose ‘Copy Compressed’ from the Edit menu.

3. Go to the program where you want to include your patch and choose ‘Paste’ from the Edit menu.

The text that you paste in will look something like the text shown at the bottom of this post. When you receive such text from someone else, to turn it back into a Max patch, follow these steps.

1. Copy the weird-looking text, including the lines that say

———-begin_max5_patcher———
and
———–end_max5_patcher———–

but not the lines that contain the HTML tags ‘<pre><code>’ and ‘</pre></code>’.

2. Go to Max and choose ‘New From Clipboard’ from the File menu.

Try it yourself. This will be a common way for you to send and receive Max patches.

<pre><code>


----------begin_max5_patcher----------
736.3ocuV00biBBE8Y8WAiOmMUIpIous+N5zICQIV5hfKfoIsS6u8kuzjtIs
Shwo9fHW.u2y4d3BuEFDsluCKi.2Cd.DD7VXPf0jwPfuePTMZWAEIsSKpfWW
iYpnItwT3cJqcFeJfuAfZKIbPwSHFCSkcyZCmoXnZrcl+VPPztQZPphmHrpU
BbgxEGv33owS.I4KrMvLSCTaC7neQr1ZBihU1HJ4fQdqpyZr2Joz5S95m+EL
83vQRd0FNIvowFquGFZdM4FoAdClAP.IukUB1Pn3AQAyRltz7jsr6QSDwoV9
HFNV7A7GfOb5AN6N9lMChJRRsvFBsMymMVfOdDAO90RTwGeGHxcR5EVPjl08
97f.dofHIOZ.QaMVJQU3yJcGTJJ2ILgVLNatKcccfK4Lf6KyPdytkq12fcgQ
TD3wQT4JUHg5Noh2bK5V+tVW9eDzsK+wpgoqe0PQ60e3KpO3pYKyMfegaKPV
5HwDyGQlPwqpN.tuYCLrOOd8X3LZ77CtTnYSEVrByPqo3iw7I5bhNmMHoNC+
h1qmpz2XRze.fCSn6olL64Ry0mbMeNLKu6fqzquXvrSIprqsVfjTwLg8wesF
wph5CDIZKtbk9mqQxJjRIHqaUt6BEzyeZFEIIEpVFwr16AoodWZBEJk+REku
FQU35F9QIMynhZDSUvEFphvYeZzZdoics+9nNybAohniVJlUodxAEK6FoHE+
Q1G7GlYuicRS+nMDcZ5Kb8eaQThZ+Y7thnOZPIv505csSk4jYchMaLDQIr++
diVsgw9mUf5qBIJ5RKdQO3fdnT6RMP5ByG5y2cd+DM9k5GyAHWpi7yolT1v0
au7HSeairI1J4ll7k88twHK6BBrj7QfBLNJ4RbTxmbjKEiZZ1hER+rs9PWN4
YtvzcwDaWBy00VaKRf2R5lep0BRnKWnzpvVgSuuK2cKb6N.AqkXWcnAcZWZK
UYp7HaPE9MH5JZguG9O.Cr79vC
-----------end_max5_patcher-----------

</code></pre>