On 3/12/11 6:00 AM, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote: 
Hint: You can save yourself many headaches if you *always* put a [list] in
front of any message box with dollarsigns!


Now regarding the poly objects in rj library: [u_makepoly] is geared towards
making midi-like instruments polyphonic. For granular approaches, it maybe is
better to use the more simple [u_robinpoly]: It schedules the created objects
in a round robin fashion and will accept any kind of trigger message, not only
midi-like note/velocity pairs.
Thanks! This is all working correctly now. I think that I can generally avoid the need to address each directly by simply sending lists of events ... i.e., I don't need to know precisely which is which. I'll experiment.

But this is hugely helpful, and solves my problem.

And yes, the throw catch errors I realize were just because I hadn't set up stereo outputs, but it will - correctly - work, just complaining about the missing second channel. :)

Peter