hi there,
i've just finished making a kind-of poly~ (ala max4) for pd... without any externals at all :) ... it make gratuitous use of the much-discussed self-modifying-code tricks.
it can do ~100 note polyphony (with a veeery simple instrument) on my machine... so it's fit to do some reasonable granular synthesis too.
i'll just post the abstractions here for the moment, i'll probably put them on my site somewhere soon(ish)..
for now, read the readme.txt... look at the examples... scream in horror...
please let me know what you get up to with this...
seeya, pix.