Hi all. I've been experimenting with pd for years but have only recently made time and effort to really get into it.

Currently I'm working on an abstraction for a 32 step sequencer. It sends 4 values of 0-127 on each step, for some fun modular programmability. I was successful using a pretty intense method writing to tables with messages, but I feel there must be a more elegant method I'm missing.

Is it possible to get the name of the sent or recieve symbol names specified in the properties of a number atom? This would allow me to easily retrieve the index of a number2 object to pipe into the tabwrite object.

Thanks!

I should mention, I have manually specified these number2 atoms to send and recieve over say "table1_i1_s" and "table1_i1_r" respectively. I want to know how I can get these names as symbols and parse the number after i into floats to put into tabwrite as an index to be written to. Or if a better solution exists I'm all ears

If you want to send a text message with a number you just make a message box containing the info you want to send and connect it to [send xyz] and then bang the message at the same time you send the variable, then you can [receive xyz] at the other end. (if you want to do that automatically whenever you change a number then just connect the output of the number box to the input of the message box).
You can't send both a number and text in the same send & receive box unless you start packing them into lists... probably simpler just to use 1 send & receive pair for the number and 1 send & receive pair for the text.

It's not that elegant!
In writing sequences I haven't found a need to send text with numbers. Just label stuff with comments to help you see where it's going.

I haven't seen your patch but possibly a way to make it more efficient is to bear in mind that if the numbers for each step are stored in the number boxes or sliders used to edit the sequencer, then they don't need to be additionally stored anywhere else unless you are saving/loading patterns. If you want pattern storage then, yes, you will need some pretty intense messaging to exchange the data between the displayed/currently played sequence and the memory banks.

@nipuresu Hello...... just a maybe, as I am not certain that I understand the objective, but you could tag the data like this......

or don't bother, and just send your data directly to the array......

or much tidier and more direct..............

David.

Is it possible to get the name of the sent or recieve symbol names specified in the properties of a number atom? This would allow me to easily retrieve the index of a number2 object to pipe into the tabwrite object.

If I understand you correctly, then what you need to do is create a small abstraction with a number atom in the Graph On Parent area (see here if you haven't done this before). Then connect this to the object [array set array-name $1] $1 is a variable that you can assign when you create the abstraction. So when you create the object [my-abstraction 1], it will write to the 1st place of the array.

Note that if you don't have [array get], you can do the same with [tabwrite], but you'll have to use [pack f $1] between the number and the [tabwrite]