[PD] Audio line circuit breaker?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: IOhannes zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 3:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Audio line circuit breaker?
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> On 11/15/2011 09:06 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  Oh, ok.  Well, that's one of the three reasons that [sig~] exists.
> 
> i think the only reason is legacy.

Not really.  It has its applications when patching live (esp. in conjunction 
with [expr~] as in that Youtube live-patching clip someone posted).  And, 
at least for me, in live patching it's the clearest choice for implicit summing 
at a signal inlet when a control value needs to be combined with a signal 
connection, and one has already made the signal connection.  (But in a 
premade patch I'd just make the summing explicit with [+~].)

Finally, if you have an object like [cyclone/rand~] where you can't set the 
initial inlet value with an argument, it's easier to do [sig~ 30]--[rand~] than 
[loadbang]--[30(--[rand~]

It's certainly not the most vital object in Pd, but then again neither is 
[float], really (why not just use [list])?

> 
> mgfasrd
> IOhannes
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