Is there any way to turn sub patches on and off.

I need to create a group of radio buttons that will switch between sub patches. So only one patch will be active at any one time.

I am trying to create several pages for my monome (similair to what can be done with mapd but I need to light leds on the monome via ableton live. I don't think this is posssible in mapd).

Yes, there is an object called [switch~] that turns on and off all* the DSP within a subpatch or abstraction.

The first example shows switching DSP from outside the subpatch

The second shows switching the messages (any message type) with a spigot

The last shows a subpatch that shuts itself down when it isn't making a noise (very useful)

* It doesn't turn off message domain objects the same way and there are some pitfalls to watch out for with this. One is that certain objects may overflow or eat memory. It can be avoided by also adding a [spigot] to control message inputs.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/switching-subpatches.pd

Thank you for the info obiwannabe.

From reading your post it sounds as though switch and spigot are used for audio, can they be used for midi as well? (I'm at work at the moment so am unable to try it out for myself). I'm having to convert OSC and MIDI messages between ableton and the Monome.

[spigot] is used only for messages, not audio signals.

Any message, MIDI or OSC, can be controlled with [spigot]