Hallo,
Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote:
Frank, if you have a few moments, could you explain a little about how this wiring works in [polypoly]? I see in the [pd init] subpatch of [polypoly] where the connections are made, but I don't understand why the first inlet goes only to the current [poly]-selected voice, while the second goes to all second inlets of all the cloned abstractions.
It's hard to envision what the final patch would look like, or why it would look that way, at least.
Hm, I think, you're misreading the automatically generated instances of the wrapper abstractions a bit. You'll probably see it a bit better if you move around the abstractions in [pd $0-poly] a bit, otherwise the patchcords and objects are on top of each other.
Basically [pd init] only sets up the basic stuff in [pd $0-poly], that is, first it clears this subpatch, then it creates "fake inlets and outlets" as senders rsp. receivers.
Then the wrappers are created and connected like this:
[r in1]
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[polypoly-wrap whatever 0 ...]
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[polypoly-wrap whatever 1 ...]
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[polypoly-wrap whatever 2 ...]
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[polypoly-wrap whatever 3 ...]
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...
[r in2] then is connected to every second inlet of polypoly-wrap and both signal outlets (second and third outlets) of polypoly-wrap are connected to the fake signal outlets: [throw~ out0] and [throw~ out1]
It may be nice if [poly] would support "note amp foo bar etc." lists.
I agree; that would make [polypoly] useful for any conceivable kind of abstraction cloning, not just synth voices constrained to a {note, amp} model. But you can only work with what you have, of course.
Btw.: My proposed [list] trick is almost directly taken from Miller's example and explanation in 3.audio.examples/D11.sampler.poly.pd only Miller uses a [pack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0] instead of [list] probably just because the patch was written when Pd didn't have [list]. You could study this patch and the respective part in Miller's book as well to get a feel for the idiom I'm referring to.
I know sometimes it's hard to hear "tone" in email, so I just want to make it clear that I am not criticizing [polypoly]. I think it's awesome, and am very grateful for your work on it. I'm trying to understand it better, though.
I think I understood you quite well and I definitely welcome your kind of constructive feedback and suggestions.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__