hi Larry,
the main difference is that Borax is one of those old-style midi-centric Max objects, which do not understand floats and ignore integers outside of the range 0-127.
Besides, Borax filters out pitch duplicates.
Krzysztof
Larry Troxler wrote: ...
were using poly. So I think that if you can build Borax on your system, you might as well use it instead of poly, because you lose nothing, and gain other interesting outputs.