Reference Manual

475 Max for Live
Note: unlike Live’s native devices, Max devices are not saved inside Live Sets, but rather as
separate files.
25.4 Max Dependencies
As mentioned earlier, there are some special file management considerations when creating
presets for Max devices. Additionally, Max devices themselves may depend on other files (such
as samples, pictures, or even other Max patches) in order to work properly. In this case, you
may want to use Live’s file management tools to collect all of these dependencies into a single
place, particularly if you want to share your Max devices.
One way in which Max for Live helps to deal with external dependencies is by allowing you to
freeze a Max device. A frozen device contains all of the files that are needed to use it.
Note that freezing of Max devices is not the same as Live’s Freeze Track command (page
569).
To learn more about freezing, and about how Max deals with managing dependencies for its
own files, we recommend reading the built-in Max documentation.
25.5 Learning Max Programming
To help you learn more about building and editing Max devices, Cycling ’74 provides compre-
hensive documentation and tutorials built into the Max environment. To access this documenta-
tion, select “Max Help“ from the Help menu in any Max window. There is also a “Max for Live
Help“ entry in the same menu.
Max for Live also comes with a number of Lessons which provide step-by-step tutorials for build-
ing a variety of Max devices. These Lessons are available from Live’s Help View, which can be
accessed from Live’s Help menu.