hey im wondering if there's an external that solves the throw/ catch/ send / receive issues with multiple instances. I just want a summing bus that can be sent different places, as i am dynamically opening/ closing patches and i want to be able to send audio directly from one patch to another instead of to a top-level routing patch. Is there an alternative to throw/ catch?

thanks

throw13~ is described to accept set messages, but doesn't work for me. if you get it to work, tell me how!

throw~ already takes set messages, i need a catch~ that can have more than one instance.

same there, catch13~ and also send13~, receive13~
but none of them work for me.... so, no good hint, i guess!

Just an idea: if the number patches needing to share the same [catch~] is limited, why not sending it to a set of [throw~] each pointing to other dynamically set catches inside your patches?

It would require an upper limit for the number of open patches and a system to correctly set the dynamic catches, depending on buses already "listened".

I've been wanting to solve this problem and have been meaning to learn dynamic object creation so I combined both endeavors. Created two patches, [dynthrow~ name] and [dyncatch~ name] which mimic the API of [throw~] and [catch~] but allows one throw~ to send to several catch~es (not the other way around).

Ex:
[dynthrow~ test]
[dyncatch~ test] [dyncatch~ test]

This example will create two sets of throw~ and catch~. One will be assigned the name test.1 and the other test.2. A third dyncatch~ would create a test.3 and so on.

If you remove one of the dyncatch~es it will not remove it's corresponding catch~ (couldn't figure it out). It's a little annoying because PD will start sending errors to the console, but if you create another dyncatch~ it will assign it to that available throw~.

It doesn't matter whether your create the dynthrow~ before or after it's corresponding dyncatch~.

Requires PD-Extended and I have only tested this with version 0.40.3
Give it a whirl, let me know if it works out.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/dyncatch~.zip

I lied, it does not copy throw~'s API completely. It does not implement a set method.

Seems to do the job. Nice!