Combining patches is a good method. some of patches out there more easily combined than others, of course in Pd there are many ways to do things, so it would be good to come up with a framework that would easily allow things like paging knobs…
@jpiringer , one quick way to lock the knobs is to use a functionality provided by the mother.pd patch. You can send a ‘lock’ signal to each knob to suppress its output until you move it a bit. send a bang to ‘knob1Override’ to suppress knob1 until it is touched. (there is an override signal for each knob 1-4) Then when you change pages, first send bangs to lock the knobs, then change pages:
[t b b]
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[change page] [lock knobs]
This will keep the params from jumping around while you change pages…