# Sound quality opinions?

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**Created:** [June 22, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/sound-quality-opinions/1369 "2017-06-22T13:49:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.critterandguitari.com/t/sound-quality-opinions/1369/28 "2017-09-19T21:05:38Z")

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> [@oweno](#):
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> Although it is still possible to get messed up if a user has an old mother.pd in a patch folder, so ideally there would just be a version tag in mother.pd and it wouldn’t get loaded if it didn’t match OS version.

yeah. this is a concern, as Ive seen past posts here, with errors related to using customised mother patches.  
the issue is , I don’t want to load the mother patch, only then to have to unload it because its the wrong version… but I guess, given a pure data patch (mother.pd) is just plain text, I can easily search it for a version tag… say in a comment.

also I think we could version the mother patch (=protocol) separately from the mother host, so that we only update the motherpd version, if something is changed in it that we know is means ‘custom mother.pd’ need reviewing… which I think is not often the case.

there is a slight issue, how to notify the user, that his custom mother.pd has been ignored?  
I guess we could try to find a way to flash a message on the display… but that’s going to be a bit annoying.  
(hmm, we could then move the mother.pd, to mother.pd.old, so its only displayed once)

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