I've made several different abstractions that were variations on the original MAX gate. Most of them use either a network of spigot-select pairs, or the route object. The route version is a little more efficient, I think. You have to pack the data to be routed and the data controlling the routing into a single stream using |pack|, and then |route| sends the second half of the message to the output designated by first half. This is admittedly very ad hoc and not particularly efficient. Can anyone suggest a better solution?

Greg NYU

Sergey wrote:

Hi, in Max there is an object called gate, where you can specify the number of "gated channels". is there something in PD, or is there a way to create an abstraction with variable amount of inputs? Thanks for any help... Serge

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