[PD] clone vs. dynamic patching

[João Pais]

> > one feature badly missing is the possibility ta allocate dynamic "voice"
> > (or "instance") numbers (i.e. how many instances of an abstraction are
> > created).
>
> That would be useful and it's actually on my to-do-list :-). But usually I
> just allocate the max. number of instances I need and simply "disable"
> instances I don't need. I think this is generally the better approach for
> cloned DSP objects (using [switch~], because dynamically changing the
> number of voices wouldn't be realtime safe anyway...
>

that is usually enough, but in some cases there is no limit, and it has to
be tried out what the best results are - not necessarily in realtime. For
now I'm doing that by calling clone dynamically in a dedicated subpatch.
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