im starting to look in to using the poly~ object. and everything works fine, except im trying to send in messages to control parameters on the synth on a global level, using [in x] messages only seem to work on the first instance of poly, so i looked it up more and (target x y) sound like they are supposed to work. so a message of "target 0 x" should address all instances of poly~ a message.

so lets assume my poly's first (leftmost) inlet is what controls pitch, and the second inlet controls octave transposition. i send in (target 0 3) to the second inlet and it should change the octave transposition value for all instances. but it doesnt change anything, and there is no "message not understood" messages in the max window.

im starting to look in to using the poly~ object. and everything works fine, except im trying to send in messages to control parameters on the synth on a global level, using [in x] messages only seem to work on the first instance of poly, so i looked it up more and (target x y) sound like they are supposed to work. so a message of "target 0 x" should address all instances of poly~ a message.
so lets assume my poly's first (leftmost) inlet is what controls pitch, and the second inlet controls octave transposition. i send in (target 0 3) to the second inlet and it should change the octave transposition value for all instances. but it doesnt change anything, and there is no "message not understood" messages in the max window.
so im stuck. please explain.


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in case you actually sent "target 0 3" the synthax is wrong.

the target message must not preceed a list, it has to be sent as an extra message:

sending it once is enough, all future messages will go to the chosen target now.

ohhhh man. i thought at one point "maybe its supposed to be sent as 2 messages" but i was like "no, the tutorial wouldnt mess up like that"

1 - thank you very much, it works perfectly.

2 - to the people at cycling74. fix your "poly~" patcher's help section in the "instances and messages" section of the help section, change the [pak target 0 0] object, because it isnt hooked up correctly.

1 - thank you very much, it works perfectly.
2 - to the people at cycling74. fix your "poly~" patcher's help section in the "instances and messages" section of the help section, change the [pak target 0 0] object, because it isnt hooked up correctly.


and btw, the effect is applied to all inlets. :)

FYI: changing 'target' on any inlet appears to affect all inlets, or maybe I did something else wrong, but it seems to be true :)

..so what I started doing was setting 'target 0' on loadbang, then just sending this to poly, in this example, to send 'justone' to instance 3:

Then in the 'poly' subpatcher, I generate the instance number by sending a loadbang into 'thispoly''s left inlet, and connecting its left outlet to a 'route' module's right inlet. That filters out the instance number and passes 'justone' into the patcher instance. I found it easier to debug that way :)

poly~ target message not working