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I'd like to implement a little basic functionality that's similar to how Ableton Live clips work. That is, I'd like to have a few clips that I can trigger individually so that the clip will start on the next "beat. I can see how to do that with a global transport and some counters. However, I'd like to be able to trigger clips so that even if they're already playing, they will play a second (or third, etc) time. For example, suppose a clip is 16 bars long (4 beats/bar) and I would like to be able to trigger a clip so it starts on the next even bar, even if an instance is already playing.

Based on my understanding of the Max event scheduling system, I'm not seeing an obvious way to do this. As I understand it, each sequence needs to be driven by a clock but I'm not aware of any way to create them dynamically so that I can have as many as I need.

Has anybody done anything like this or know of any external that might support this? (No, installing Ableton doesn't count)

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I think you could use [poly~] to create multiple instances of [detonate] for playing the same clip simultaneously with different start times.

I thought about that but it still wasn't clear how dynamic it would be, unless the "voices" message works seamlessly to create (and remove) instances on the fly as I don't know how many I would need of a particular sequence in a live performance situation. I guess I'll have to do some experiments.

I think I have figured out a way to do this by using 'coll' to insert start times on the fly and then "dumping" coll on every clock :-)

Triggering MIDI clips multiple times