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that send and receive work globally - over all devices....

Thought they only send to receivers in the current patch.... guess what happened, when i added two instances of my device

btw. here are some sound examples of my device i'm currently building...

https://soundcloud.com/charly-beck/char ... er-fx-demo

https://soundcloud.com/charly-beck/charlynator-betatest

try r ---aname and s ---aname to have the send and receive only communicate within the device they reside!

Cheers
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S4racen wrote:try r ---aname and s ---aname to have the send and receive only communicate within the device they reside!

More than try; do that religiously. The only time you should ever have a send/receive pair without the '---' prefix is when you explicitly want to send across devices.

(the constraint on scope imposed by '---' reduces a ton of latency)

ah ok. i allready changed all to 'prepend' and 'route' to communicate over cables. each patcher has a msg.in inlet and a msg.out outlet and they are all connected to each other through a bus. that works too.

With the --- prefix the message is still being sent across devices over here. What gives?

Nevermind -- save the patches first. Durr

Yes I recommend this to everyone. I just updated a monster patch where I did not follow this rule (because I only learnt it half way through building).

But if you have a monster patch, you can kind of automatically convert all Send/ Receive to have '---' prepended to them.

Save your patch as a text file.

Open the text file ina text editor (PC notepad, Mac TextEdit)

Do a search + replace function (CTRL F probably) and search for the name of your send box. Replace the text with ---NAME. Replace All.

Now select all of the edited text and go to Max - File New from Clipboard. Voila! Now you can save the device.

Maybe double check the results using the built in Search tool in Max.