[maxmsp] Many data to store: preset or coll?

Patrick Delges schrieb:
> The [pattr] objects family is the more versatile for presets. But
> it's a bit more difficult to use than [coll]...

To store 80 GUIs in 100 presets I'd say pattrstorage/autopattr is about
1000*(several magnitudes) simpler than using a coll. I wouldn't know how
to do it with coll (I don't want to know), and I have more than 15 years
of maxin' in my pocket... ;-)

Chris Muir schrieb:
> Preset is fragile, in that as you add things, your old data is no
> longer valid. I sometimes use preset for very quick and dirty things,
> but not for anything that I will want to modify over time.

It's fine as long all objects are in the same (main) patch, and if you 
can live with lost data during developement. The GUI is intuitively 
simple. But if you need to create your own GUI anyway, just go the pattr 
way. pattr rocks - no problem to include data from subpatchers and 
bpatchers and poly~s...

Stefan

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