Re: [sc-dev] demand rate

[Julian Rohrhuber <rohrhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >  A simpler synthdef spawner ugen would also be possible and has 
> > already been discussed in the past on this list. There is an issue 
> > of how to name the synthdef to be spawned since currently a ugen 
> > can only take numeric arguments, not strings. A ugen can accept a 
> > string as a u_cmd argument, but then you have to know the ugen 
> > index. An alternative approach would be to assign numbers to 
> > synthdefs and have the ugen trigger them by number.
>
> Could there be a way of generalizing completion messages to handle 
> this?  You might pass an array of SynthDef names
> to the spawner and then use a Control to select which one you want 
> when you trigger. (I suppose it would actually be an array of
> OSC messages that would create the synth.  Possibly each could have 
> an associated array of Control names that
> would allow the new synth to receive parameters from the synth doing 
> the spawn..)



it is possible to convert a string (the defname) to a number. This 
number could be used by the ugen graph to find the def by converting 
it back.
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