[PD] Polyphony and granular synthesis, etc.

Hi everyone, I'm revisiting granular patches as I work on some examples for libpd. Any kind of granular synthesis is, of course, heavily dependent on polyphony. That raises the question of how to instantiate multiple copies of the same abstraction.

The issue is, many non-external methods of doing this right now depend on poly, which in turn assumes MIDI parameters. I would prefer something that uses arbitrary parameter lists.

We actually could now do this two ways:

1. We can instantiate multiple patches when opening them in libpd,

maintaining independent references to each patch, as Peter Brinkmann recently described on his blog - http://bit.ly/egBGV2

2. Perhaps there's a way to do this using an abstraction?

nqpoly, etc., I believe did this, but it seems it's not supported - and may not be the best approach?

Thanks,

Peter

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