[PD] counter trouble

[robbert van hulzen]

thanks a lot. i'd worked it out, but it's helpful to get this clear
explanation / overview. and i didn't know the [mod] thing.

> Hallo,
> robbert van hulzen hat gesagt: // robbert van hulzen wrote:
> 
>> dear all, i'm working on a little metronome abstraction (thanks for the link
>> with the description of the inversion process, frank barknecht! hadn't sat
>> down to dissect the rrad.metro yet), and i'm running into some trouble with
>> [counter]: a 'low' creation argument doesn't seem to be accepted more than
>> once. eg i want it to count from 1 to 5 (to be able to differentiate between
>> downbeat and other beats): that works once, after that it starts counting up
>> from 0 again. i worked around it in the way as shown in the patch below, but
>> i'm wondering whether that's the right / only / most elegant way?
> 
> Maybe I should add a tip how to do counters to that Wiki page as well.
> Anyway I would recommend to not count with any [counter] external for
> two reasons: One is that there are several incompatible [counter]
> objects floating around the net. The other is that counting is really
> simple to do with standard Pd objects, once you understood how to do
> it. Attached tutorial may help with that.
> 
> Ciao