try casting your string to symbol with the [symbol] object before the [select]
I see. but the problem is that I am sending several types of messages under the same address like /spin 111 0 12 /spin xxx /spin zzz
maybe i should specify another address? like: /spin/xxx 1
This way I might not need the select object but the OSCroute. Still trying to format my way of thinking into OSC ;-)