ferguson@music.mcgill.ca

I forget where I got the attached file from, but in Max 4 it was always the case that when I opened it, only one of the pvars would work until the reference to the names of the pvars was changed (as indicated in the patch). I used to use a little abstraction to fix this so that I could safely have multiple pvars referring to the same named object in a patch.

In Max 5, however, the patch doesn't have the same behaviour any more. When I open it, both pvars receive the values from the named number box, with having to toggle the names.

Is this a change in Max 5? Are we able to now use multiple pvars in a patch without worrying that at some point the reference to the named objects will suddenly be lost in some of them?

change-to-pvar-in-max-5

This was 'unofficially' fixed for Max 5, but not thoroughly tested for all possible usage situations. If you find that it doesn't work as expected, drop a note, but I expect that it will.

change to pvar in max 5?