[PD] vanilla replacement for polygate~ ?

[Frank Barknecht]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:22:43PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> On 22/03/13 22:35, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >>________________________________
> >>From: Patrick Pagano <bigswift at ufl.edu>
> >>To: pd-list at iem.at
> >>Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 3:57 PM
> >>Subject: [PD] vanilla replacement for polygate~ ?
> >>
> >>
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>I was wondering if anyone had an idea for a Vanilla replacement for
> >     polygate~, which is listed as a switch between multiple signal
> >     inputs. I would like to make a patch for IPAD/MOBmuPLat that has
> >     this in the patch but i am wondering what a good vanilla substitute
> >     might be for it?
> >
> >
> >You can't.  Or-- you can, but it will be a cheap imitation that either
> >a) always has some maximum number of inlets, or b) uses nonlocal
> >receive names to make up for the fact that you cannot dynamically
> >instantiate inlets inside an abstraction because the [loadbang]
> 
> It would be relatively easy instead if one could dynamically set the
> name for [send~] (like for [receive~]) in vanilla.

You can set the name for [throw~], though. But for a [polygate~] variant one would use
the settable [r~] anyway, I suppose. The idea would be: 


 [soundgen~ 1]
 |
 [s~ s-1]

 [soundgen~ 2]
 |
 [s~ s-2]


 [set s-1(
 |  [set s-2(
 | /
 |/
 [r~ s-1]
 |
 [dac~]


But it's still no polygate~: You get nocrossfades and of course no [inlet~]s.

I'd just just patch a [dekagate~] abstraction with 10 fixed inputs and proper
fading for Pd vanilla. It's useful to have anyway and you only do it once.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__