[PD] this is crazy

[matteo sisti sette]

Hi,

Attached is a simple abstraction that contains an osc, a dac, a
loadbang that triggers a random that sets the osc's freq, and a print
that shows the frequency at loadbang.

Now, do the following experiment:

On a new patch, create an instance of [oscabs].

Surprise! It doesn't sound! However it does print the frequency, so
the loadbang was triggered.

Now, create another instance of [oscabs] in the main patch.
Surprise! The old one starts playing, and the new one is silent.

You could go on like this: when you add the N-th instance, the N-1-th
starts playing.

Now suppose you have created 2 instances and only the first one is playing.
Delete the first one: Surprise! The second one starts playing.

Indeed, if you have N instances and the N-th is not playing, you can
delete any of the first N-1, and the N-th will start playing.


Now delete all and start from scratch.

You create one [oscabs], it doesn't play.
Now select it and do CTRL+D (duplicate) to create a new one.
Surprise! Both start playing at the same time, the old and the new one.

If I save the main patch, close and reopen it, all instances are
playing, as expected.

Can anyone explain this crazy behaviour?

Testing with 0.40.1 on Windows XP.


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