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I have been fiddling with MaxMSP for several days and wish to know:

How does one take a certain patchbunch of objects that do something and have that model of functionality execute in several concurrent instances ?

In my case - a clocker is sending time elapsed to 2 functions (expr's), one

calculates a physical object's x position, the other the its y position (2D world).

Both calculated values are then fed to a function that calculates distance from a certain point, and that distance is used in order to control the amplitude of a signal. i.e. the further away the lower the amplitude will be.

This model is nice and all, but what I need is to be able to handle the existence of multiple objects - each object has a different x-position-function and a different y-position-function.

1. Have entire "chain of functionality" deal with lists. I don't know if that makes sense... How would I specify that a list of (x,y) values has to go through a list of (f-x, f-y) functions?

2. Have whatever functionality I wish to replicate inside a poly~'s subpatch, i.e. each subpatch instance in memory will represent an instance of the physical objects I'm trying to sonify.

3. Whatever the design someone experienced would have done...

Hi all,
I have been fiddling with MaxMSP for several days and wish to know:

In my case - a clocker is sending time elapsed to 2 functions (expr's), one
calculates a physical object's x position, the other the its y position (2D world).
Both calculated values are then fed to a function that calculates distance from a certain point, and that distance is used in order to control the amplitude of a signal. i.e. the further away the lower the amplitude will be.

general-question-how-to-have-functionality-ran-multiple-times-in-parallel

poly~ sounds like a good solution for what you describe

From your description, implementation with poly~ is the most obvious solution.

For dealing with functions for lists [vexpr] may be useful to you.

From your description, implementation with poly~ is the most obvious solution. 

For dealing with functions for lists [vexpr] may be useful to you. 

poly~ may be the correct solution, but it also may be that a simple abstraction might suit you just as well. Create an abstraction that calculates the X, Y and distance, and make as many instances of it as you have objects.

Where does the distance calculation end up? Do all the distance calculations go to the same place? Can you put your audio processing inside the poly~?

poly~ or absctractzions .. but you should also try calculating lists.

if you have a list 1 3 5 2 6 7 4 for "starting point" and a list 3 8 8 45 35 3 3

for "offset", then [vexpr $i1+$i2] is your friend.

if you have a list 1 3 5 2 6 7 4 for "starting point" and a list 3 8 8 45 35 3 3
for "offset", then [vexpr $i1+$i2] is your friend.

General question : how to have functionality ran multiple times in parallel ?