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From: IOhannes zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at To: pd-list@iem.at Cc: Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Audio line circuit breaker?
On 11/15/2011 09:06 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Oh, ok. Well, that's one of the three reasons that [sig~] exists.
i think the only reason is legacy.
Not really. It has its applications when patching live (esp. in conjunction with [expr~] as in that Youtube live-patching clip someone posted). And, at least for me, in live patching it's the clearest choice for implicit summing at a signal inlet when a control value needs to be combined with a signal connection, and one has already made the signal connection. (But in a premade patch I'd just make the summing explicit with [+~].)
Finally, if you have an object like [cyclone/rand~] where you can't set the initial inlet value with an argument, it's easier to do [sig~ 30]--[rand~] than [loadbang]--[30(--[rand~]
It's certainly not the most vital object in Pd, but then again neither is [float], really (why not just use [list])?
mgfasrd IOhannes
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