sorry if this is an obvious one - i'm not sure what my problem is called. i'm still a newbie after about 2 years of pd-ing...

i've made a patch that contains numerous instances (copies) of a sub-patch called [pd loopmachine].

when i open up and edit [pd loopmachine], my changes only seem to affect that particular instance of the subpatch. if i then open up any of the other instances of [pd loopmachine], they will not have changed.

does this mean i need to delete all the old versions of [pd loopmachine] and replace them with copies of the newly edited sub-patch? or is there a way to have each instance of [pd loopmachine] automatically update itself to reflect the changes?

thanks!

jon

make abstractions instead of subpatches.