[PD-dev] Send~ and receive does not allow you to change name with a symbol!

[Jakob Skouborg]

Why exactly I need it?

It’s not only for me but for everyone. I just think it would be great if all those style of objects had the same feature. Send~, receive~, send and receive, they are all related and I think it would be nice with same features. That was why I mention the receive version too.

If there are issues with adding it, I respect that, I just felt that it would be a nice update. I can’t code that well, but non coders still have ideas and suggestions, but in the end I respect what the coders say, they know if it’s feasible or not.

A use case is to be able to use one send~ to be able to send it to different destinations. So for example if you have 3 receive~ called dest-1, dest-2 and dest-3. Then it would be nice to able to set the name of send~ to one of the 3 names, so you can switch between which one you send to. As it is now, then I need to use 3 different send~ objects, with the same names as the destinations object and then use a multiplexer to route it to the right send~. My experience is just, especially for big patches, that keeping the amount of audio rate objects to a minimum is always the best. If we could use one send instead of 3 or 10 for that matter, it would be better, performance wise. Generally it can be used for all kinds of routing matrixes :) 


> On 17 Jan 2023, at 20.21, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Em ter., 17 de jan. de 2023 às 16:07, Jakob Skouborg <syntaxerror60 at hotmail.com <mailto:syntaxerror60 at hotmail.com>> escreveu:
> I will check the ELSE options, thanks, all though it is the sender that doesn’t offer option to change name. 
> 
> For adding it to Vanilla version, Miller gave an answer, which indicated there is not an easy way to do it, without adding a block of delay. But nice to see that an issue has been raised, mentioning it.
> 
> The issue on github is for an inlet to receive, not being able to set send name in [send~].
>  
> I just need to be able to change the send~ name.
> 
>  I see, I wonder why exactly you need this, like a specific use case.
>  

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