Placebo Messiah

maintaining a connection to a single object that is NOT being duplicated?

there seems to be a lot of redundant work involved with creating a 32 voice polyphonic synth

Apparently encapsulating inlets doesn't work either

so far I have a single voice core with about 60 i/o points

is-there-a-way-to-duplicate-objects-while

Surely you're using [poly~] and not doing things 32 times?

oh man....I read some short tutorial on the poly object and I was convinced i had to make 32 engines haha

First off, [poly] and [poly~] are different objects.

I have a couple of examples on how to use [poly~] on my web site. On 

 there's PollyWannaAllocate and StupidSynth, and on 

I have a couple of examples on how to use [poly~] on my web site. On my examples page, there's PollyWannaAllocate and StupidSynth, and on my main Max page there's SimpleFMSynth


excellent and thanks, I will explore them shortly

I think midi implementation is by far the trickiest part of max. So far I'm feeling really discouraged at transforming my stand-alone monosynth into a polyphonic midi device. It's almost like I need a class on Max/MSP midi connectivity

I think midi implementation is by far the trickiest part of max.  So far I'm feeling really discouraged at transforming my stand-alone monosynth into a polyphonic midi device.  It's almost like I need a class on Max/MSP midi connectivity


First question: Does the "in~" object allow me to circumvent the use of the parser object?

i noticed the poly~ object defaults to a single input, which in many cases has a translation structure on the other side of it for the receiving voice object

First question:  Does the "in~" object allow me to circumvent the use of the parser object?

i noticed the poly~ object defaults to a single input, which in many cases has a translation structure on the other side of it for the receiving voice object


A common solution is to [pack] control data and use the [target $1, $2 $3..] message(s) to the [poly~] inlet; you can of course add as many poly-inlets as you need. Peter Elsea (as well as Chris above) have provided some excellent 'realworld' examples of polyphonic midi-synths, using the [poly~] object.

Is there a way to duplicate objects while...