Hi,
I have installed plugin~[1] (for loading LADSPA[2] plugins) and the CMT[3] (a collection of LADSPA plugins), and am attempting to use the syndrum plugin (as a test). Unfortunately, this plugin has control inputs named "Frequency (Hz)" and "Frequency Ratio". This is a problem since the way plugin~ works is to expect messages of type "control" sent to its input, where the first argument is the name and the second is the number. So, to get to my question:
Can I, in PD, construct symbols that have spaces in them? For example, can I construct a message whose fields are "control", "Frequency (Hz)", and "7"?
Further details: plugin~ does a case-insensitive comparison, and it only compares as many letters as the minimum of the lengths, so I can specify "frequency" and it finds something; but I can't specify both "fequency ratio" and "frequency (hz)".
I have checked and the symbol boxes available in PD accept tabs but not spaces or carriage returns. What will break if they allow spaces too? Do symbol boxes forget their values, as number boxes do?
Thanks, Andrew Archibald [1]ftp://iem.mhsg.ac.at/pd/Externals/PLUGIN/plugin~-0.1.tar.gz [2]http://www.ladspa.org/ [3]http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/