[PD] Segmented Patch Chords? PVar / PV?

[Roman Haefeli]

hi

i never worked seriously with max/msp, so i cannot compare, but from my 
experience with pd, i never had any problems with readability of my patches. 
i think there are few alternative ways to keep a patch readable than 
segmented patch chords, using subpatches or abstractions in order to create 
sections with a special functionality. sometimes i even use a 
[send]/[receive]-pair instead of a patch cord, just for readability

$0-send/receive: what would be the difference to a NOT-fake-mechanism? (i 
don't know pvar nor pv)

roman



"Item State" <itemstatechanged at yahoo.de> wrote:


> hi,
>
> is there any means to get segmented patch chords in
> PD? as soon as i have a few feedback / recursive
> structures, the patch is terribly unreadable IMO.
>
> otherwise, are there some truly local send/receive
> objects, that is not those fake mechanism using a
> patcher instance number in the port name, something
> like PVar or PV in max?
>
> thanks, sciss
>