Evan

I am working on converting a recording/playback/buffer manipulation system with Gen objects for greater flexibility and sonic possibilities, but I have run into a problem. I use multiple instances of this patch in one Live set, so I have to be careful with my naming of things, as they all communicate to each other, but I don't want them sharing some send/receive pairs, and the buffer~/groove~ names. I get an error when trying to reference an external buffer with the "---" identifier in Gen. I thought of trying to dynamically rename the buffers, but I don't think you can do that in Gen (please correct me if I am wrong!). If anyone has any advice regarding this topic please do share!

using-the-unique-identifier-in-gen

you can dynamically rename buffers in gen~... most folks use shortcuts, but i think if i remember correctly... no wait... i'm looking now, i don't find it easily in the docs, so i must have learned this from someone else's patch :p

you send a message from outside the patcher with 2 names: first is the name of the buffer within gen~, and second is the name of the buffer~ outside, and this will pair the 2 buffers (for example if your buffer op in gen~ is named 'gensamp', and your buffer~ in msp is named 'mspsamp', you send the message to your gen~ patcher from the outside "gensamp mspsamp")

it is sort of documented here in the "patching in gen" section:

https://cycling74.com/docs/max6/dynamic/c74_docs.html#gen_overview

(but they say there "see gen~ section for more details" and that section doesn't actually have this detail, so i'm pretty sure i learned this from the examples folder or a patch posted here :p)

you can dynamically rename buffers in gen~... most folks use shortcuts, but i think if i remember correctly... no wait... i'm looking now, i don't find it easily in the docs, so i must have learned this from someone else's patch :p
you send a message from outside the patcher with 2 names: first is the name of the buffer within gen~, and second is the name of the buffer~ outside, and this will pair the 2 buffers (for example if your buffer op in gen~ is named 'gensamp', and your buffer~ in msp is named 'mspsamp', you send the message to your gen~ patcher from the outside "gensamp mspsamp")

it is sort of documented here in the "patching in gen" section:
https://cycling74.com/docs/max6/dynamic/c74_docs.html#gen_overview

What a perfect solution. Now I can get back to the task at hand. Just successfully rebuilt the [record~] object in Gen, so I'm off to rebuild the [groove~] object. And if you don't mind I'm going to cannibalize your fart noises patch for some glitchy goodness.

why are half of answers on this forum missing?

:D did you actually find a solution or was this last post meant humorously? (made me laugh XD haha..) sorry, this thread is my fault, i think the answer was that you can setup prepared buffers within gen, and switch which outer buffer they refer to by sending the message from your parent max patch to the gen~ object: 

"[name of internal/gen~ buffer] [name of outer/msp buffer~]"

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:D did you actually find a solution or was this last post meant humorously? (made me laugh XD haha..) sorry, this thread is my fault, i think the answer was that you can setup prepared buffers within gen, and switch which outer buffer they refer to by sending the message from your parent max patch to the gen~ object: 
"[name of internal/gen~ buffer] [name of outer/msp buffer~]"

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nah, christinas solution works better.


Using the "---" Unique identifier in Gen