Hey everyone
I've been working on a fairly elaborate sequencer patch in Puredata Vanilla version 0.52. I'm using just vanilla objects which have all been available in Puredata for some time.
I noticed when I open this patch in "Purr Data" or in older versions of Vanilla Puredata, (like 0.49), all the objects load correctly, but a lot of the patching is wrong. Specifically in sub-patches, the patching is just...... all over the place with cords going everywhere and not at all how it was patched when I made things.
I'm interested in making sequencers in Puredata that can be used on platforms like Bela or the Organelle. Those types of things usually use older versions of Pd. I expected that, because .pd files are human readable text files, there would be backwards compatibility, but I guess this was a faulty assumption?
I'm curious:
Is Vanilla Puredata generally not backwards compatible with older versions? Or is this a bug? Is there any easy way I could correct the patching in my patch so that it'll open in older versions of Puredata without having to re-patch everything? Or should I just stick to older versions of Puredata for this type of work going forward?
thanks