I finally got off my duff and put together this library I've been thinking about for years. After making my own nqpoly5, nqpoly6, nqpoly7, runmany, voicepoly, etc. I've tried to bundle all these techniques into a common library. Since this library is all about managing many instances of a Pd patch, I'm calling it 'many'.

http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/many

Objects in the 'many' lib are based on code from Steven Pickles' (aka pix) nqpoly4 and Frank Barknecht's polypoly. Thanks to pix's nqpoly4 because that was the real groundbreaking work that proved that a useful and reliable instance-managing object could be programmed in Pd. Frank then did the work to make it maintainable and hackable.

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