PDCON:Conference/Self-replication: how to do more using less

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

An integral part of Pd is instantiation-time evaluation, although currently, it 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.