hi,
I'm assuming this will be something obvious that I am just not seeing, but the attached patch is a simple osc player for 3 speakers where I want to decrease the vol at each pulse over a course of time. I want the counter to decrease the level by .01 each pulse...
works fine manually (just bang " [dec ( " to see this in action), but when the patch is activated by the start bang in upper left the counter does not count at a .01 interval, but instead seems to double this increment each time..am I missing something?

thanks so much for applying another brain/eye combo to this one..

db

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/pulses.pd

i solved this rather simple problem by just using a metro instead of counter for the top of this patch and generally cleaning it up, but I'm still curious why the first instance was so chaotic in counting? Is counter not meant for this kind of use, or was my patch just flawed on other levels?

b

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/pulses~.pd

The problem you're having is that you're sending that [vline~] message [1 50, 0 50 200( to [pipe]. When you have a comma in a message box, it is considered two messages, so you're actually sending two messages to [pipe] which get sent out at the same time. This double triggers your [counter 2], which ends up sending that messagebox twice, resulting in now four messages in [pipe] at the same time. It just keeps snowballing exponentially, so you end up with an assload of firings at once by the end, which is why it appears to slow down as well. If you change the [pipe 1000] to [delay 1000], which cancels previous bangs when it receives a new one, then problem solved. Of course, you'll also need to convert the messagebox to a bang, otherwise you'll change the delay time:

[1 50, 0 50 200(
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[t b]
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[delay 1000]

thanks... obviously didn't catch that. but I would like to remember how to f things up. It was actually more "random" than I typically get with Pd..