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location.
Note: unlike Live's native devices, Max devices are not saved inside Live Sets, but rather as
separate les.
23.4 Max Dependencies
As mentioned earlier, there are some special le management considerations when creating
presets for Max devices. Additionally, Max devices themselves may depend on other les
(such as samples, pictures, or even other Max patches) in order to work properly. In this
case, you may want to use Live's le 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 les that are needed to use it.
Note that freezing of Max devices is not the same as Live's Freeze Track command.
To learn more about freezing, and about how Max deals with managing dependencies for
its own les, we recommend reading the built-in Max documentation.
23.5 Lear ning Max Programming
To help you learn more about building and editing Max devices, Cycling '74 provides
comprehensive documentation and tutorials built into the Max environment. To access this
documentation, 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
building a variety of Max devices. These Lessons are available from Live's Help View, which
can be accessed from Live's Help menu.
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