Here's the problem -

In the patch I'm working on, pattrstorage recalls (among many other things) the setting of a top level ubumenu, which loads in a specific bank of samples. (Ie the slots in the ubumenu recall different banks of samples from hard drive). Once loaded, the names of the samples are distributed to other ubumenus contained in sample players (in subpatchers). When this happens, the subpatcher ubumenus default to slot 0.

So the particular sample I want to play in each player is set by its ubumenu, and that setting is also stored in pattrstorage.

Here's the problem:

When I recall a master setting, the sample bank menu is selected and the samples start to load. As that's happening, all the other settings are recalled, so sampler menus 1-3 are set to the appropriate slots, but the names haven't loaded yet...

Then the samples finish loading, and the sample names are sent to the sampler menus, which are set to slot 0.

So it's a timing problem. What I _want to have happen is that first the required sample bank is selected; it loads and the sample names are sent to the players, and only then do all the other settings load. Is there an obvious way to do this? Or would I need to ditch autopattr and set up something with lots of pattrs and pattrhubs connected to the various objects via delays?

thanks for any insight

David