Comments by pfawcett23

Easiest thing to do is to go here:

http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/downloads

Download the full package for your platform.
Un archive it.
Then stick the whole unarchived package in your Max5/Patches directory and Max should just see the stuff after that (as the patches directory is on the max path). This makes updates easy, as you can just replace the CNMAT package when ever they do an update with out having to change anything else.

The why is; CNMAT contains a bunch of add ons to Max that add cool functionality. There are tons of such externs out there on different sites, just waiting to be turned into parts of Max4Live patches.