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Hi, I wondered if there is a way of gen~ handling unpacked multislider lists greater than 16.

This would be a handy param feature as the use of Multislider is quite limited at present with only a max of 16 "ins"

Maybe there is a way but could not figure this out,

gen-dealing-with-multislder-list-input

Is there a way gen~ can hanlde lists? not really right?

I mean it would be quite convenient not to have to unpack it outside, create a lot of inlets etc..

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Is there a way gen~ can hanlde lists? not really right?
I mean it would be quite convenient not to have to unpack it outside, create a lot of inlets etc..
all the best


Correct. There is no list input or parameter for gen~ currently.

However, note that parameters are not limited as are inlets. So you could define as many parameters you want--e.g. foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4, etc. and use multislider -> iter -> sprintf foo$i1 $f2 -> gen~ or something like that.

You could alternatively work around this with clever use of a buffer~ object-i.e. write the values into a buffer (one per sample) and read them from within gen~.

yes, buffer~, buffer Gen and poke~ is how I worked around it in the end. It is actually quite an elegant method.

note that one advantage of parameter over buffer is that the parameter is updated only once per vector when gen~ optimize the code. Buffer is updated every samples.

Emmanuel, Nice!. Quite a CPU difference, which additively will make a difference. I will try this tomorrow.

Only problem Emmanuel's method is that I am dealing with 1000+ multisliders. The buffer, poke method is so simple, worth the CPU overhead. Both elegant in the right context. Thanks again.

Gen~ dealing with Multislder list input