Joe Wignell

I am new to max and I have been building a midi effect which can use drum triggers to play midi data from a track in various ways (chords arpeggios etc). I have been using to Coll object to store all of the midi data from the track to use with the effect but the problem I have is that I would like to use several instances of the same effect on different tracks with different triggers and different midi data. The obvious problem here is that coll shares the information across all instances of the effect. The easy fix is to have multiple versions of the effect with differently named coll objects but I don't think this is a very elegant solution really. So either I need a different object which is not shared or I need some kind of system that could randomise the names of the coll objects on different instances of the effect. I am sure I am just missing something here but any help would be much appreciated!

I am new to max and I have been building a midi effect which can use  drum triggers to play midi data from a track in various ways (chords arpeggios etc).  I have been using to Coll object to store all of the midi data from the track to use with the effect but the problem I have is that I would like to use several instances of the same effect on different tracks with different triggers and different midi data.  The obvious problem here is that coll shares the information across all instances of the effect.  The easy fix is to have multiple versions of the effect with differently named coll objects but I don't think this is a very elegant solution really.  So either I need a different object which is not shared or I need some kind of system that could randomise the names of the coll objects on different instances of the effect.  I am sure I am just missing something here but any help would be much appreciated!

Hi there.
I am new to max and I have been building a midi effect which can use  drum triggers to play midi data from a track in various ways

alternative-to-coll-object-that-is-not-shared

You may find that using Max's built-in search is useful in this case: try hunting for #0 and coll and see what happens :-)

I knew I was mk something! Thanks very much!

You can check the [rcoll] object made by Chris Muir, at this address.

You can check the [rcoll] object made by Chris Muir, at this address.
maybe it's doing what you need...

welcome to #0 - but if you dont use a name at all, that has the same effect for coll.

Alternative to Coll object that is not shared?