[PD] What is pd-WORKSPACE?

baptiste chatel baptiste.chatel at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 18:52:20 CET 2017


There should be a subpatch named WORKSPACE, which receives all messages
sent to pd-WORKSPACE. Also, you should learn about locality !

2017-02-04 18:26 GMT+01:00 David <dfkettle at gmail.com>:

> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to create an "effects rack" in PD, with 8 slots for various
> effects and a grid of toggle switches to chain the effects together (see
> "EffectsRack.png", attached). It's working in it's current version, but I
> also wanted to be able to swap different effects in and out while the patch
> is running, since I have more that 8 different effects available. I found
> some examples of other people's attempts to create objects dynamically, and
> modified one of them to do what I want (see "Effect~.png", attached). The
> problem is that I can only create a single instance of "Effect~"  in the
> main patch. If I create more than one, as soon as I swap in a new effect to
> any one of the 8 slots, it overwrites whatever was in the other 7 slots.
>
> I tried changing the name "pd-WORKSPACE" in the message, so I could give
> each work space a different name, but PD doesn't seem to recognize any name
> but "pd-WORKSPACE". Is this name somehow predefined in PD? Is there only
> one work space available to dynamically create objects? Is there a better
> approach that would let me do this?
>
> Thanks,
> David Kettle.
>
>
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