If you follow on the Max Gen forum, you might be forgiven sometimes for thinking that the only people using gen~ are command-line-codeophiles busy downloading stuff from DSP archives and dropping them into a codebox object. While that’s awesome, I have a particular “burden on my heart” – as we say in the part of the U.S. my family hails from – for those who love them some graphic patching. The ever-delightful Johan van Kreij may have excited you at some near-future point by showing you the process whereby he uses connect-the-box programming to make something amazing. The only way to tell whether or not you’ll be excited and grateful is to have a look at it for yourself, of course.