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i see this as actually just a backwards compatibility issue. i.e., it seems to have been made this way so that all the max 5, 4 & 3 patches that used the 'set' method will still produce a 512 samples waveform as before. but now in max6 you can use the size in samples attribute anyway (would be great if we had this as attribute rather than message to buffer as well!). it is a fair backwards compatibility thing i think, as the large wavetable sizes available now (up to 65k!) sound so completely different to the old 512 style. i made a ring mod recently with 65k wavetables for fun - awesome.

so, i think this will stay this way. but you never know. i mean i naively thought i wouldn't go THIS bald, either.