hiya,
...after peeking into pdp some more recently, I found a really useful object: pdp_route...basically it just creates a number of outlets and routes the input to an outlet based on a number sent to it's left inlet...very simple object, and it seems we could/should have such a beast for gem states, too, because I'm tired of doing the whole route/ spigot/lots of other objects for the same effect...
...so, I'd be up to trying this, if other's think it'd be useful and not "bloatful" ;-)
james