hard off wrote:
[switch~] lets me turn off audio processing within a subpatch or abstraction, but is there a way to turn off all non-audio processing as well?
Would be good indeed to have a "pause" function to pause clocks (like metro, delay, pipe, etc).
I don't think it exists, and I doubt it would be easy to do it in a way similar to switch~ (ie, for each subpatch/abstraction). I'd be happy with a global "; pd pause 1" "; pd pause 0" message system.
Alternatively, there is "; pd quit", but that's a bit of a blunt instrument... (it will however "turn off all processing") ;)