To this: 

[noise~]

[hip~]

[lop~]

[dac~]

Of course this is a trivial example, but it’s not if you wanted to arbitrarily reorder

an effects chain with 30 objects in it.

I stumbled across this paper:

and this GitHub repo https://github.com/iem-projects/pd-iemguts

and it appears that iemguts might do what I need -

What do you all think?  

(I posted this to the patch~ section of the Pd forum as well, and there’s some discussion going on).

- Nick