kwbryson@yahoo.com

Hey, has anyone else encountered these problems/know of a solution?

I'm running Max 5 on a mac with OS 10.4.11

While trying to use abstractions I've created I'm having a lot of problems with "identifiers" You know those things like #1, or #0 to make multiple instances of an abstraction unique. Well I kept getting the message that, when using #0 Record~ or Groove~ could not find buffer~. similar problem when I use #1 to identify. If anyone knows a solution to this, let me know. Also I've had trouble finding help with Identifiers in the documentation, anyone know where that is? Thanks in advance for your help.

While trying to use abstractions I've created I'm having a lot of problems with "identifiers"  You know those things like #1, or #0 to make multiple instances of an abstraction unique.  Well I kept getting the message that, when using #0 Record~ or Groove~ could not find buffer~.  similar problem when I use #1 to identify.  If anyone knows a solution to this, let me know.  Also I've had trouble finding help with Identifiers in the documentation, anyone know where that is?  Thanks in advance for your help.

issues-with-subpatches-abstractions-in-5

I know this is a stupid question, but you did make a buffer~ that has the same #name as the record~ and groove~, didn't you?

As I understand it, it should work correctly if I set it up so I have "buffer #0" "record #0" and "groove #0" they should all be assigned a number within the patcher. What I see graphically in my patch confirms this, when I load it up I see "buffer 1105" "record 1105" and "groove 1105". Same thing applies with #1, if I type in the argument "a" I look and see "buffer a" "groove a" and "record a". If theres something incorrect about that let me know.

As I understand it, it should work correctly if I set it up so I have "buffer #0" "record #0" and "groove #0" they should all be assigned a number within the patcher.  What I see graphically in my patch confirms this, when I load it up I see "buffer 1105" "record 1105" and "groove 1105".  Same thing applies with #1, if I type in the argument "a" I look and see "buffer a" "groove a" and "record a".  If theres something incorrect about that let me know.

I can't tell whether this might be related to your problem, but when used as a buffer~ argument, #0 needs to begin a symbol, such as #0foo, which results in 1183foo when a patch is loaded as an abstraction. The name argument to buffer~ must be a symbol; it can't be a number, even though you can use #0 by itself in Max 5 -- a somewhat strange and pointless feature I suppose.

If you can make an example that demonstrates the difficulties you're having everyone will be very interested to see it.

Issues with subpatches/ abstractions in 5