PDCON:Conference/Patching for multi-instantiation: why don't put more inside?

One of the tiny annoying vices which still compromise the many virtues of Pd, preventing its wider adoption by computer music community, is the lack of implicit multi-instantiation mechanism. According to common expectation, any implementation of a sound synthesis algorithm should qualify for seamless abstraction into a polyphonic instrument. For Pd, this is not yet the case, and a proposal of how to fill the gap is described in this paper.

An integral part of Pd is instantiation-time evaluation. Currently, this device is limited to a simple form of parametrization of object arguments. One can imagine other possibilities of user-guided computation performed during instantiation phase. This proposal explores one such possibility.