I have a table named $0-UberTones and I want to send a

[; $0-UberTones sinesum $1 $2 $3(

to it. When I prototyped the patch, without the $0- it worked just fine. Apparently, though the message works with all the other Vargs ($1, $2, etc.), message sending doen't understand names that begin with $0? I just get a "UberTone, no such array" kind of error. is there a way I can sinsum to $0- arrays?

Yes you can, like this :

[pack f f f $0]
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[; $4-UberTones sinesum $1 $2 $3(

The $4 is because the $0 is the 4th argument of the [pack] object.

so many graciases! that makes hella sense... when I get home I'm working it out!

hmmm... I've got this working in the following sequence, for selecting a single specified drum pattern:

[bang(
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[$0]
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[set $1-pattern2(
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[tabread $0-pattern1]

where the initial pattern is $0-pattern1 the selected pattern is $0-pattern2.

However, if I want to select from various different patterns I have tried the following but without success:-

[bang( [pattern1( (or pattern2, 3, 4, 5 etc. )
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[pack $0 s]
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[set $1-$2(
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[tabread $0-pattern1]

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong here?

I'm on version 0.38.4 and there $ substitution in messages only works when the $ is the first thing after a whitespace. So e.g. :

[$1 $2( works

but

[$1-$2(

doesn't work. Apparently (found this in another recent post) this had changed in version 0.40, so that the last message would be correct. But i can not confirm this.

What i would suggest is that you take a look at the [makefilename] object which can be (ab)used for this kind of stuff.