Thoughts from the mind of Lammers, H.W.M., 10/1/01:

>Can you perhaps explain how this "alias assigner" works, because I don't
>understand anything about it.

V4 manual, p. 5-64, 5-65.

Make a couple of different faders (for demo-purposes e.g. a vertical
fader, a knob and a button). Select one of them, and pick "Alias"
from the environment window's "New" menu. An alias to the selected
fader will be created, connected to the original by a blue line.
Now create an alias assigner (New>Fader>Specials). Connect the 1st
outlet to the Alias you just created. Connect the next outlets to
all the faders you created, one by one.
If you then drag the Alias Assigner up and down, you'll see the Alias
get reassigned to the various faders in succession.
Since you created different types of faders, the result will look
rather horrible :). Normally you'd use e.g. 20 vertical faders with
different ranges instead of 3 different kinds of faders.

In your case (the 14bit problem), you could make a bunch of 14bit
faders with different ranges and move them off-screen. Create one
Alias and put that on screen, and use an Alias Assigner to pick
whichever 14bit fader you need.


hope this helps,
HJ
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