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Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>; <br>
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Re: [PD] noob question: trying to repurpose the G08.reverb.pd example <br>
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:<BR><BR>> Why not always put your abstractions in the same directory as the patch? (Or in a<BR>> subdirectory if you want to organize them that way.) It makes things more modular:<BR>> e.g., you can just compress the containing directory and shoot it off rather than<BR>> sending a separate attachment for abstractions and have them copy your manually-entered<BR>> search patch settings (which most likely will not be the same across platforms).<BR><BR>But sending a separate attachment also makes things more modular, as it allows using the exact same abstraction collection over several different patches. As those object-classes (abstractions) become more familiar, they become something that doesn't have to be relearned per-project and it becomes a common vocabulary across projects.<BR><BR>It's two different kinds of
modularity.<BR><BR> _______________________________________________________________________<BR>| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC<BR></td>
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