Hi IOhannes,
I modified my patch accordingly (see attachement), but this doesn't make any difference. It is still behaving as described in my first message.
If I remember correctly Miller doesn't use a trigger after a counter in the help files and examples (using a [f ] and a [+1] side by side). The same outlet (from f) is connected to the inlet of the [+ 1] and to the object receiving the counter's value. I agree with you that the use of a trigger would be the proper way of doing it, but if it were plain wrong not to use one I suppose that Miller wouldn't do it this way (for instance in the control example, 05.counter.pd).
I understand the use of triggers very well I think, and I use them practically everywhere. But here the problem seems beyond my understanding of execution order.