I'm working my way through the second volume of Cipriani and Giri's book on Max/MSP. and just started working with the poly~ object. I am hoping someone would be kind enough to explain why the poly~ object is not freeing the various instances of itself (this is the problem, yes?). I am sending a "mute 1, 0" message to the thispoly~ object when the sound's envelope is finished... Thanks.

I'm working my way through the second volume of Cipriani and Giri's book on Max/MSP. and just started working with the poly~ object. I am hoping someone would be kind enough to explain why the poly~ object is not freeing the various instances of itself (this is the problem, yes?). I am sending a "mute 1, 0" message to the thispoly~ object when the sound's envelope is finished...  Thanks.


poly-confusion

OK, I actually figured out how to make the patch work myself by fiddling around some more. However, there is still something I'm either not understanding re either poly~ or the way a "note" should be formatted. I am now sending the midi note number and a line function into the first outlet of a poly~, still prepended with "note". It now allocates correctly within the poly~ object. Before I had the line list sent into a separate inlet in the poly. Why did this not work originally? Does a midi note always need an envelope in order to be allocated in poly~ properly?

poly~ confusion....