Hallo, Christopher Charles hat gesagt: // Christopher Charles wrote:
most of my bagoftricks patches look radically different and i don't save copies of them with only some parameters changed. another bonus for me is ease of use, with clicking pd's save button, i save exactly what i'm working on at the moment, when i load it up later, it sounds the same. only one file to take care of.
If I press the "SAVE"-bang in my patches, all settings are saved as well. But: I can use the same patch with two or more states, and I can even change states on the fly. To me, this is a crucial advantage of saving to an external file.
Of course to each his own, but pressing a different "SAVE" to save the patch than to save the current state of the variable in my patch is no problem for me.
Additionally: I'm using Subversion to keep track of past versions of my patch. If the patch changes just because some sliders were moved, this ould create a whole lot of different patch versions when in fact the actual patch didn't change substantially.
Plus: I also manage state files in the same subversion repository. I can go back to an earlier state there as well.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__