I've made a sequencer, which I am upgrading constantly. In the patch I duplicate this sequencer four times. The sequencer contains many sends and receives, so when I duplicate it I need to rename them all.

This seems like a really bad way of doing things. Is there a more intelligent approach to this?

Many thanks.

Have a read of this from the tutorials section http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-6417-dollar-signs-objects-messages
The short answer is that you should use your sequencer patch as an abstraction and put $0- infront of the name of every send and receive.

Thanks a lot for this response. I've been reading on the subject for the last couple of days. It is taking me a while to get my head around it. I found it encouraging to read someone say that it is a fairly good benchmark from moving from beginner to intermediate with PD.

For anyone else reading - I found this helpful too - regarding the difference between dollar signs in text and object boxes... http://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/ch043_dollar-signs/

Thanks again for your help