@whale-av WOW!!! The 'rack' system is awesome, it's such a great way to store information Unfortunately [initbang] isn't working for me. I'm running PD vanilla on an RPI 3 with l2ork+extended library paths, but when I try loading [iemguts/initbang] / [initbang] PD can't seem to find them. Which is strange since l20rk and pd-extended both have working [initbang] objects, however their builds aren't stable enough to load this patch. I've been looking for the external location, however I could only manage to find the help file

I substituted [initbang] for just a [bang] and I was able to see how the 'rack' system works, but I feel like I'm gonna need [initbang] or some sort of workaround to get this working.

Looking ahead, the final step that would make this an effect tool would be an 'open' button in the graph-to-parent, one that would just 'open' the window/abstraction that the effect was in so you can edit parameters

Thanks again for all the help
-Sean

@whale-av So I switched over to [catch~] and [throw~] and now information is being sent to/from the effects abstraction nicely! However, if I try and create multiple instances of the effects loader abstraction in the same abstraction, then all sends and receives get sent to both abstractions
Here's the latest Effect Loader and a basic Plate Reverb to test it out with EffectLoaderTEST.zip

Thanks again for all the help!! This is proving to be a much bigger undertaking than I planned, but I'm liking the challenge

@whale-av So I managed to get state saving working with [iemguts/canvasargs] however, all of my sends and receives to the effects abstraction are messed up. I'm able to send a bang to the abstraction using [s $2] (which was [s $1] before I implemented state saving), however sending audio is proving to be trickier.

I tried changing all of the sends and receives to [s~ $2Lin], [s~ $2Rin] etc... But the Pd terminal is saying there's no matching sends
I switched over to [throw~] / [catch~] and got a nice signal flow, however I'm planning on having multiple instances of the same abstraction.

I'm really stumped with this one

@whale-av @LiamG So I managed to getting everything working (sort of). Using [menusave( in the abstraction enables information to be sent to and from the parent patch and using [canvasdelete] clears all information. Here's what everything looks like so far...
There's only two things I need to figure out in order for this to be an effective loader...
There needs to be some way to open the effects patch from the parent-to-graph (just pull up the abstraction window that has the effect in it).
AND, for some odd reason information in the abstraction and the parent-to-graph isn't being saved/loaded. I'll save everything and close out the patches, but when I open it up I have to reset everything. I'm kind of new to puredata, so I'm sure I'm just missing something small.

THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL THE HELP

@whale-av Thanks for the response! I just figured out why [s~] and [r~] aren't working, I forgot that I there was another abstract with the same [s~] / [r~] destinations

However, I'm encountering a new issue now. I'm running the aforementioned patch as an abstraction with the [bang] and [inlets]/[outlets] in the parent window using parent-to-graph. However, information isn't sent to the loaded abstraction until it is saved

My question is; does an external exist that saves an abstraction/patch. A simple ctrl+S in the abstraction resolves this issue, so I'm looking to streamline the process.

THANKS

@LiamG Thanks for the help! I was able to make an abstraction using [iemguts/sendcanvas] and open a PD patch using [symbol2list] to filter out non-important information from [openpanel] (IE usr/home/desktop/etc..) so my overall patch looks like this...

[bng]
|
[openpanel]
|
[symbol2list /]
|
[unpack s s s]
           /
[symbol2list .]
|
[unpack s s]
         /
[obj 0 0 $1(
|
[iemguts/sendcanvas]

Now the tricky part is to get the abstraction to automatically send and recieve information from the parent patch. I'm currently using [s~] / [r~] however the [r~] in the abstraction doesn't seem to be working. If I connect information into the inlet of the abstraction it'll work, but ideally I would like information to be sent to and from the abstraction automatically upon creation.

@LiamG Thanks for the quick response! Sorry, I should've been a little more clear
Ideally I would like to use [openpanel] to open and load/create an abstraction within the main PD patch, instead of just creating an abstraction.

Hi Everyone,

I've been trying to figure out a way to open and load a PD patch as a subpatch. I've been experimenting with [openpanel] and [openpatch], however it just opens the patch and doesn't create a subpatch.

I thought about putting a loadbang in the patches that would then copy all the information in the patch and paste it into a subpatch. But I figured it would have to use shell commands and I'm not too savy with those.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

@EEight That makes a lot of sense I cleared up some background processes and managed to load my 700mb library!

Thanks again for all the help

@EEight Well I feel silly, thanks for the help!

Fluid~ is working great now! The only issue is that it doesn't load sf2's bigger than 100mb (or around there), which is a bummer because my favorite sf2 is around 800mb

Any thoughts on how to remedy this?

Hi again!

So I managed to test the midi and now I can't seem to get fluid~ to cooperate. The midi controller is working well with puredata, even fluid~ is prompted every time I play a key, however, I'm not getting any sound. I'm sure it's just something small I'm forgetting, but I just can't seem to figure it out :/

@jancsika Thanks for the quick reply! Strange how the only fluid~ external on the website is an OSX binary... Fortunately I found a linux binary in the l2ork build and just copied it over! Everything looks good so far, just gotta test the midi later

Thanks again for the help!

Hello,

I've been running Pd-extended on a Pi 3 and I've been having the hardest time getting the Fluid~ external working. I downloaded the external (https://puredata.info/Members/korayt/pdfiles/fluid.pd_darwin.zip/view?searchterm=fluid), extracted it and put the contents in a folder on my desktop. I then added the path 'desktop/externals' to my preferences, but when I tried loading fluid~ nothing happened. I also tried using the 'declare' object and that didn't work either. I also tried adding the files to the default externals location, however I kept getting permissions errors even after using 'chmod' and 'mkdir'

Any help would be greatly appreciated

-S