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Encapsulating and Reusing Your Work
No matter how easy we make it to use Max, making patches takes time. You'll be happier if you can reuse some the of work you've done already, and Max has a number of ways to let you do this.
Creating abstractions from patchers
is the most basic way to reuse your work.
Clippings
are small pieces of patches you can save and re-use.
Templates
are starting points for new patches.
You can create reusable
object prototypes
as variations on the default appearance and behavior of user interface objects.