Better way to deal with long string of arguments

[rodrigo.constanzo]

@tremblap

The game: : send me your bufcompose impossibilities and I’ll show you how to do it. It could be good to build up other people’s use case since I am the poweruser but also the interface designer so it is simple to me - the primer above should help make sense of the actual 3 arguments sourceAwithboundaries sourceBwithboundaries dest

Putting this as a separate reply to decouple the feature-request-y bit from the specific use cases.

1. So in the case from the other thread, wanting to create a single multichannel buffer from an arbitrary amount of individual buffers (with no manipulation of gains/offsets/etc…)

I’ll go back to trying to fix what I had, but this is what I posted in the other thread:

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It doesn’t work (but the patch in context is biggish and a bit confusing in terms of structure since there’s dynamically created objects and externals)

So that’s a super simple, seemingly super obvious use case, which requires a pretty messy argument strand (sprintf process %s 0 -1 0 1 1 0 %d nmf_filter_sum nmf_filter_sum).

2. This one was solved by @weefuzzy just after the plenary, but it seems like concatenating a buffer from lots of individual files (a folder specifically) shouldn’t be as (relatively) complex as it is.

3. Splitting a big multichannel buffer into individual (poly?)buffers. So being able to take a higher @rank resynthbuf’s output and then splitting it out into individually addressable buffers for easy play in the mc. universe (and/or easier individual treatment/processing).