[PD] Variable number of objects?

Charles Henry czhenry at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 20:26:46 CEST 2011


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Ludwig Maes <ludwig.maes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where do I learn more about the more/less objects?

Here's the abstract:
http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/PDCON:Conference/Self-replication:_how_to_do_more_using_less

The full conference proceedings are due to be published online any time soon.

> On 28 September 2011 20:02, Charles Henry <czhenry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'd really hope to hear from Krzystof on this topic.  His
>> [more]/[less] objects presented at the PdCon were really interesting
>> for creating large numbers of voices.
>>
>> The difference in approach embeds the new instances (without having a
>> graphical representation) into the same abstraction and sums their
>> outputs on the outlets provided.  It behaves a lot like MPI
>> programming where each program instance is an exact copy,
>> differentiated only by index.  Messages piped in can be sent to
>> specific embedded instances through [less] if I remember correctly.
>>
>> Increasing or decreasing the number of voices sounds like a dynamic
>> patching application.  I don't know much about it, myself.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Ludwig Maes <ludwig.maes at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Im not sure what the best way is to instantiate variable number of
>> > objects,
>> > for example consider polysynth.pd:
>> >
>> > Theres a fixed number of manually placed voices, suppose I want to have
>> > the
>> > top patch to contain a counter through which one may increase or
>> > decrease
>> > the number of voices, how would I go about that (without manually
>> > placing a
>> > load of voices and disabling them...)?
>> >
>> > Whats the vanilla way to do this? Whats the pd-extended way to do this?
>> > ...
>> >
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