Hi there,

Please help me out with this.
I'm have been using pd a lot but I still cant figure out how to do some things that would be easy in other program languages I know.

I want to make:

100 oscillators
all at a different pitch, n+0.1, n+0.2, n+0.3, n+0.4, n+0.5, ...., n+10.

And I don't want to make 100 oscillators and connect them by hand.
It is faster to that than to figure out how I could do it otherwise, but it is just stupid to do it this way.

Thanks in advance,

you can send messages to [pd $0-foo] subpatches using (this syntax requires a recent pd version...)

you can create objects like this. just remember to do: "; pd dsp 0" before you send messages that create signal objects and/or connect them and "; pd dsp 1" after you've finished. the syntax is just like .pd files, when pd patches are loaded messages are sent to #X (iirc)

or: write a program in another language that generates a Pd patch, the file format is quite simple, and it might work out less pain than trying to build such a program in pd.

search this forum or pd-list for "dynamic patching" or "internal messages" or similar, there's plenty of info

maybe also [dyn~] might be useful, but i've never used it, got a feeling it's more for dynamic polyphony than static stuff like that.

the "pure pd" way without dynamic patching would be something like:

make a patch (abstraction) with your pitch offset oscillator
make a patch (abstraction) with 10 of the above
make a patch (abstraction) with 10 of the above
use the above when you want 100 pitch offset oscillators

What about wavetables? You could write a sinesum to an array and then play it back at any frequency with [tabosc~] or tabplay4~. I have a feeling this wont suit your needs though.

[;array1 sinesum 1024 0.4 0.5 0.66 0.7 0.8 0.9 1(