[value] vs [send] and [receive]

mendel lee's icon

Is there a particular reason to choose to use the [value] object to route stuff within and between patches as opposed to [send] and [receive]? Historically i've always done the latter, but as i'm rebuilding my Max chops for the first time in several years i'm not sure i remember why i chose to go that route and am open to the idea of changing my approach.

Andro's icon

You can use send and receive with the forward message. This allows dynamic routing to any receive object with messages.

Pedro Santos's icon

Another difference:
With send/receive the message is automatically output at the receive object; with value the message is stored and needs to be banged.

mendel lee's icon

aaaaah that makes sense. thanks guys!