A simple question folks:

Is it possible to send audio from a bus within a subpatch using [throw~ name] and receive it in the parent patch using [catch~ name]? I actually tried it and didn't seem to work. What am I missing?

Thanks in advance!

I think it should work unless you put $0- in the name.

It should be working. If it's just a subpatch using $0 should be fine. It would only be an issue with abstractions.

I was wondering, what is the advantage of using [throw~] and [catch~] over [send~] and [receive~] ?

The difference is:

One [send~] to multiple [receive~]s

Multiple [throw~]s to one [catch~]

And [send~]/[receive~] is computationally more efficient as you can just point to the [send~] input buffer. But with [throw~]/[catch~] you have to multiplex the signals together.

Ok, that makes sense...
Thanks!

No worries

@Jwif said:

The difference is:

One [send~] to multiple [receive~]s

Multiple [throw~]s to one [catch~]

And [send~]/[receive~] is computationally more efficient as you can just point to the [send~] input buffer. But with [throw~]/[catch~] you have to multiplex the signals together.

Thanks! I had no idea about that. That's a funny thing,I actually thought both schemes should be symmetrical: one-to-many, many-to-one. Then I thought I was stupid because new information is created in the forward sense when using [throw~]/[catch~] routes.

I think It would be great if there were an entropy measurement of a table, where you can extract the amount of information of any file (or table) and use it as a compositional tool. Like steam in thermodynamics, maybe things could get really organic when using entropy as a progran parameter.

Just random thinking here,