Hi William,
On 25/02/2020 10:36, William Huston wrote:
*The point is the last two patches have (or should have) an identical graph! *
Pd works with nested graphs - each whole abstraction/subpatch is treated as one atomic unit from the outside. That's why in your original post your second diagram with the abstraction boundaries in blue is not so strange: the blue boxes are really black boxes so the DSP really does loop.