Hello listers (and Frank B. in particular),
I've been converting a PD synth I've been using from an [nqpoly] voice manager to Frank's new [polypoly]. Mostly, it's working well for me, but one thing about it seems less than optimal, and I wonder if it is intentional.
The first inlet sends its {note, amp} pairs to one and only one instance of the polypoly'd abstraction. The second inlet broadcasts its message to *all* instances (see attached patch for simple illustration).
I can see reasons for wanting it to work that way, so if it was intentional, so be it. It would work much better for my selfish purposes -- I like to send a big list of parameters to the voice that's about to be fired off -- if it only connected to the same instance that the first inlet connects to.
(As an aside, it occurs to me that [polypoly] would be much more
generalizable if the first inlet could send a list *of any size* to the
poly-allocated abstraction, instead of a hardwired {note, amp} pair.
Then I would be happy to see the second inlet be "global", because I
wouldn't need it anymore. I'd just send a big list, including note and
amplitude as well as all my other parameters, to the first inlet. The
drawback is that this would require a custom version of [poly], since
[poly] assumes {note, amp} pairs.)
I get lost in the auto-creates and auto-connects in [polypoly]'s innards, so I can't figure out how to play with this. I'm awfully grateful for this powerful object, though. If I can get it working, my synthesizer patch will work great for process music (which is all nqpoly can really do), *and* live playing. Thanks, Frank.
Phil Stone UC Davis
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