in the attached example, I am trying to switch back and forth using a gswitch between a 220 and a 440 cycle~, using a metro set to 250 ms.

The gswitch only seems to work if I toggle audio on and off, but not when the metro sends its bangs.

This is happening in 5.0.6 and 5.0.7 which I just installed.

can anyone verify this problem? it has been driving me nuts all night, until I could at least determine where my problem happens...

am I doing something wrong? gswitch *should* switch the signal from the second to the third inlet on every bang, right?

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gswitch-troubles

I got the expected behaviour here. i.e., gswitch switches fine on metro's bangs. Max 5.0.6 OSX

it switches here too, but I don't hear the difference it should make.

Thank you very much for trying!, even though it only makes things more bizarre for me...

it switches here too, but I don't hear the difference it should make. 

For switching between audio sources/destinations look at [gate~], [selector~] and [matrix~].

Thank you so much! to me it was unclear that gswitch was the wrong object. Selector~does what I meant to do. in the help for gswitch it only says:

"gswitch switches its output between two input streams."

without specifying what kind of input streams it expects. Thus I was thinking that this is a way of saying "anything can be gswitched here"..

Thank you so much! to me it was unclear that gswitch was the wrong object. Selector~does what I meant to do. in the help for gswitch it only says: 

Gswitch is much older than MSP. Its a good bet to assume any object without ~ is made for messages. That it does pass audio is because the connection process for the audio chain is controlled by messages. That's also why send/receive without ~ work fine with audio, but you can't change connections on the fly that way....

Thus I was thinking that this is a way of saying "anything can be 

 . Its a good bet to assume any object without ~ is made for messages

 Thus I was thinking that this is a way of saying "anything can be Gswitched here . Its a good bet to assume any object without ~ is made for messages 

gswitch troubles