[PD] Variable number of objects?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Anyone have a link to his paper on more/less?  I coudlnt' find it.

.hc

On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Charles Henry 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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