test-seq.pd

Hi,

I am attempting to make a sequencer that utilizes a lot of toggle boxes. i included two rows of the sequencer in my test-seq patch. I want to be able to use this sequencer in multiple instances.

One feature I need is to be able to clear all the boxes with one bang. If you look in the box labled "clear' you can see that i am trying to create a send object with $0- then the name and number of the toggle boxes. It's not working. If I get rid of the $0- in the send object and the boxes names this works fine. But adding the $0- is not working.

If you look at the objects to the "clear" subpatch you can see what I'm trying to do.

I hope this all makes sense.

I messed around with append and I thought maybe makefile would work. But i haven't had any success.

Any suggestions on how to go about this?

Hi,

After looking into this further, I think my issue has to do with dollar signs in objects vs in messages.

I am uploading a new patch, and I think I am getting everything right, but my toggle boxes aren't getting the messages.

If I have one instance of an object, and there's a toggle box named $0-b10s1-r and I send a message to that box from 1-b10s1-r it should get it right? Anyway and advice would be appreciated. I am uploading my revised version.

test-seq_b.pd

thank you.

@nicnut There where some minor bugs, but in general everything was good. Should work now: test-seq_b2.pd

Better always use triggers to make the order of execution explicitly clear.

@nicnut A while ago I made this abstraction just to avoid having to re-make these kind of toggle-based sequencers all the time.
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11012/grid-multi-pattern-step-sequencer-abstraction

It uses data structures instead of toggles and can save/load patterns, along with a number of other operation on the patterns, including various types of randomisation. If you send it a "delete" message it clears the current pattern.

@ingox Oh man I was so close. Ha ha. Well thank you so much for fixing that for me. I couldn't tell if the problem was in how I was using $0 (as i am still learing how that works) or something minor like what you fixed.

thank you!

@weightless Holy crap! what an amazing abstraction. I'm gonna have so sit with this and figure it out. Thanks for letting me know about this.

Nick