Specifying the Connections

Two MKUnitGenerator instances communicate via a patchPoint. The patchPoint's memory space must match the space of the input or output to which it is connected. Connections are made by sending an appropriate message to the MKUnitGenerators with the patchPoint as an argument.

There are two ways to specify the connections:

1. 1. In the init method.

2. 2. In the MKPatchTemplate itself.

It is a bit easier to specify the connections in the init method. The only advantage of using the MKPatchTemplate is that it allows MKSynthPatches to be more easily edited using a patch editor, since the connections can be stored as data using the NXTypedStream mechanism. For now, we will address only the init approach.

Let's continue our example. To make it easy to read, let's define some macros:

#define  OSC [self synthElementAt: osc]
#define  OUT [self synthElementAt: out]
#define  PATCHPOINT [self synthElementAt: patchpoint]

+ init  
{ 	[OSC setOutput:PATCHPOINT];
  	[OUT setInput:PATCHPOINT];  
 	return self;
}