Hello all!

I'm brand new to PD, but I've been creating software in various languages for awhile. My main interest is doing algorithmic music generation with MIDI instruments.

Okay, with that out of the way, I'd be super grateful if people could look at the mess I've managed to create and either point me to some concepts in the docs or help suggest ways to make it a bit more...readable?

Like, even comments don't seem to stick where I try to put them (particularly if I use line feeds in them), and so commenting patches in and of itself is @.@

I think there are a number of other things I just do... weirdly, because I don't know?

For example, if I were writing a program in a language such as C or Java, I'd create global constants for some things (such as, say, the temp), and then I could just grab it wherever I want, but in PD I have no idea how to do that? And so I end up with two places that just have a value for how long a beat is (the metro object and as a parameter for makenote)

I'm sorry for how vague this is ._.; The patch works, AFAIK, at least, and it might be at least a little amusing for people who are better composers than me

Thank you for any help or advice~

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/demo-2.pd

just a few things:
there are no (not the usual) 'types' in pd, just numbers.
'int' is just a rounded (truncated) 'float', and thus [t i b] gives an error-message,
and outputs a float anyway. use [t f b] instead.
dont even try to format comments . (or use a new comment object, if you
really need a manual line-break.)
for globals which you need in several subpatches, you could use
and [r foo] as 'wireless connections'. and if you do not want to
detect a range, but a specific (int) nr, you can use a
[select 0 1 2 3...] instead of a "[moses]-cascade" (like in makechord)

Ah! Okay, thank you for the comments!

I was wondering about the errors but though (mistakenly) that it was because I was using short names or something...

and [r foo] sound like they're going to be super helpful, along with [select]. Yeah, the cascade... got to be kind of ridiculous.

Thanks again for taking the time to look and provide feedback! I really appreciate it. =D