[PD] synthesizers / drums / effects ..etc

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Wed Dec 14 20:38:42 CET 2005


On Dec 14, 2005, at 3:20 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>> Why are you converting abstractions to subpatches? Aren't abstractions
>> much easier to reuse than having to cut and past a subpatch? At least  
>> I
>> think so.
>
> BTW, in GridFlow, a damn lot of useful tidbits are still only  
> subpatches
> instead of abstractions, and there's a reason why: for some things,  
> there
> are so many possible variants one may possibly want, that for easily
> reusing an abstraction you need to make a private copy and make your  
> own
> changes. It's possible to include a lot of variants inside one
> abstraction by using extra inlets and args, but sometimes it would just
> lead to 13 inlets and 42 arguments and that's... ok I'm exaggerating.  
> But
> still, often, I think I have to make an abstraction for a certain  
> thing,
> but then I'm confused about what its feature set should be and how
> configurable it should be, and then it becomes a mess and then I delete
> the file and go back to my subpatches...

You could write a suite of objects instead of one monolithic one with  
13 inlets and 42 arguments.  Then you get the advantages of code reuse  
without having to mess with subpatches.

.hc
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