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Duplicating Material

Duplicate

Duplicate copies a container and its contents to a new object. The new object is automatically placed in Top-Level. If a name for the duplicate is not specified it is generated from the name of the original object.

The next example copies Pulse to a new thread named Pulse2:

Stella [Top-Level]: duplicate pulse pulse2
Pasted Pulse2 to Top-Level.
Stella [Top-Level]: list
Top-Level:
     1. #<THREAD: Pulse> 
     2. #<ALGORITHM: Sinus> 
     3. #<THREAD: Pulse2> 
Stella [Top-Level]:

Other Ways to Create Material

There are a numberof different ways to create musical material in addtion to duplicate: it can be loaded from files using load or import, specified using new, copied using copy / paste and captured by receive.

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