[PD] one inlet that takes both signal and control

[Josh Steiner]

its a solution, but it wont work well for us because i want the 
performance system to be as consistant as possible so im not on stage 
scratchin my chin and thinking about which inlet does what.  so i want 
all my abstractions first inlets to be action inlets, so for instance a 
sampler might take an audio signal and a 1/0 to turn sampling on off... 
i want to just plug an audio stream and a toggle into the first inlet 
instead of having to wrapperize the toggle to get it to work.  its 
looking like i can't easily get what i want and am just going to have to 
have 1, 2, or 3 hot inlets depending on the object type (mono inlet~, 
mono inlet~ w/2nd hot control inlet, stereo inlet~, or stereo inlet~ 
w/3rd hot control inlet).  of course being able to have tooltips on 
mouseover of an inlet like previously discussed here would make this 
less annoying, but for now i'm just going to have to be scratchin my chin...


Star Morin wrote:

>could you convert the control messsages to a signal that is in the range
>of original signal + 1 kinda thing, then use a high pass to get it
>back?  kindof like a mux/demux?
>
>On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 09:38, Josh Steiner wrote:
>  
>
>>well there are objects like snapshot~ that take both type, so it seems 
>>to me (from my "never written a C pd object" perspective) that it should 
>>be possible to have an object with 1 inlet~, 1 outlet~ and 1 outlet that 
>>would split the inlet~ data according to its type.  if a) this doesnt 
>>exist in some current form, or b) it not impossible do to something 
>>about the internals of pd i dont get, perhaps this would be a good first 
>>object for me to try
>>
>>Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>hi Josh,
>>>
>>>no, you would need numbered inlets, like those used in poly~
>>>abstractions in Max.  Otherwise, it would be hard to sort out
>>>control messages that are meant to feed tilde objects from those
>>>that are not (which is the case with regular inlets in Max).
>>>
>>>Krzysztof
>>>
>>>Josh Steiner wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>hey folks, is it possible with abstractions to split control messages 
>>>>out of a [inlet~]?  i've got a sound processing object which takes audio 
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