sorry for the delay, i figured someone else would answer this.. ;)
depending on what kind of polyphony you need, this might come in handy: http://pix.test.at/pd/nqpoly
specifically, if you need midi-style polyphony (separate note-on/note-off messages), then nqpoly won't work for you "out of the box". it could be hacked to support it though. the nqpoly intrument delegation stuff works best when you know the duration of the event at the time when you trigger it.
^C^V
nqpoly (not-quite-poly) is an abstraction that uses various voodoo to fake the functionality of the poly~ object in max.
in short, nqpoly can take abstractions that obey certain requirements, and can link them together to make a polyphonic instrument.
since it automates the normally painful task of making a patch polyphonic, it is very easy to do things like 60-note polyphonism, which really starts becoming granular synthesis.
there is more information in the readme file in the tar file.
pix.
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:33:04 +0200 Atte André Jensen atte@ballbreaker.dk wrote:
I'm quite confused about how hard it seems to be to do a polyphonic patch in pd. What's the simplest way? And what's the most effecient, cpu-wise?
-- peace, love & harmony Atte
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