[PD] receiving more than one symbol

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
altern hat gesagt: // altern wrote:

> Just a suggestion, i was wondering if it would be nice to be able to 
> receive more than one symbol at one atom. I know i could use several 
> receive objects for this but i mean by using the property window.
> 
> In my case i have some numbers controlling volume of different samples 
> and i need to be able to change them individually when i load a preset, 
> but at the same time i would like to be able to change all of them at 
> the same time. I know this could be done in various other ways, but what 
> i would like now is to be able to introduce in the receive-symbol field 
> few symbols separated with a comma like : $1vol, generalvol

This can also be solved by using [OSCroute], because it supports
pattern matching, which is very powerful. (Adv.: RRADical/Memento
supports this out of the box).

The basic idea is this: Say you want to control several sliders
remotely. Then you would connect them like this: 

 [r VOLUMES]
 |
 [OSCroute /vol00 /vol01 ... /vol30]
 |      |     |               |          
 [vsl]  [vsl] [vsl]    ...    [vsl]

Now if you send messages to VOLUMES like this:  [; VOLUMES /vol02 $1( 
only one slider would be affected, in the example that would be
the one connected to "OSCroute ... /vol02".

Howver using wildcards, you can also send this: 

  [/vol* $1( 
  |
  [s VOLUMES]

to set all connected sliders at once. It's also possible to just set
e.g. the first ten sliders with this: [; VOLUMES /vol0* $1(

If you don't want to use OSCroute, a slightly less flexible version
can be built with just [route] like this: 

  [r VOLUMES]
  |
  [route /vol00 /generalvol]
  |   /
  |  /
  [vsl]

Ciao
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