There is a subpatch named WORKSPACE, I didn't include a screen print of it, but it's attached below. Like I said, it works as long as I only have one instance of "effect~" in my main patch. It's only when I have more than one, they overwrite each other.

I'm not sure what you mean by "locality", but I'm certainly willing to learn if someone can teach me.

Thanks.

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 12:52 PM, baptiste chatel <baptiste.chatel@gmail.com> wrote:

There should be a subpatch named WORKSPACE, which receives all messages sent to pd-WORKSPACE. Also, you should learn about locality !

2017-02-04 18:26 GMT+01:00 David <dfkettle@gmail.com>:

Hi!

I'm trying to create an "effects rack" in PD, with 8 slots for various effects and a grid of toggle switches to chain the effects together (see "EffectsRack.png", attached). It's working in it's current version, but I also wanted to be able to swap different effects in and out while the patch is running, since I have more that 8 different effects available. I found some examples of other people's attempts to create objects dynamically, and modified one of them to do what I want (see "Effect~.png", attached). The problem is that I can only create a single instance of "Effect~"  in the main patch. If I create more than one, as soon as I swap in a new effect to any one of the 8 slots, it overwrites whatever was in the other 7 slots.

I tried changing the name "pd-WORKSPACE" in the message, so I could give each work space a different name, but PD doesn't seem to recognize any name but "pd-WORKSPACE". Is this name somehow predefined in PD? Is there only one work space available to dynamically create objects? Is there a better approach that would let me do this?

Thanks,

David Kettle.

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