(hallo, tried to send this to pd-announce but was rejected, anyone know why?)

Here are two objects very similar to regular send and receive in pd, with the added capability to accept a 3rd argument to specify the number of inlets and outlets, each of which will become a dedicated send/receive line.

 

[nsend $0my6sends 6] will create a send object with 6 inlets, that will map to the corresponding

[nreceive $0my6sends 6] (with no number argument it will default to acting like a normal send or receive object).

 

I've also included duplicate objects [ns] and [nr] for abbreviation purposes.

 

This object is made possible by [initbang], so thanks IOhannes!

 

It is also made possible by dynamic patching, which is something I really hope gets some attention someday since it enables wondrous things, but is terribly tedious mostly because of the need to manually count the objects in a patch (a simple overlay option showing each object's number and the numbers of its ins/outs would go a long way, actually).

 

Hope these are useful to someone

Cheers

Luke