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I've got a simple FM synth that is contained within a poly~ object for polyphony. The problem is that one of the instances does not turn off as it is supposed to an continues to sound. I have tried sending a "target -1" message to the poly, as the help file says this turns everything within the poly~ object off, though this does not seem to work.

I only ever encounter this problem when using poly~ on a macintosh. Normally I use XP and it never does this. I have managed to overcome this problem once in the past, though I cannot remember how it was finally fixed.

poly-not-turning-of-all-instances

On 7 mai 07, at 17:32, Stuart Penman wrote:

> I've got a simple FM synth that is contained within a poly~ object 

> for polyphony. The problem is that one of the instances does not 

> turn off as it is supposed to an continues to sound. I have tried 

> sending a "target -1" message to the poly, as the help file says 

> this turns everything within the poly~ object off, though this does 

If you could send a part of the patch that demonstrates the behavior, 

it would help us to help you ;-) How do you manage the polyphony? do 

you use the note/midinote messages, what about the busy state? Do you 

> I've got a simple FM synth that is contained within a poly~ object  
> for polyphony. The problem is that one of the instances does not  
> turn off as it is supposed to an continues to sound. I have tried  
> sending a "target -1" message to the poly, as the help file says  
> this turns everything within the poly~ object off, though this does  
> not seem to work.

If you could send a part of the patch that demonstrates the behavior,  
it would help us to help you ;-) How do you manage the polyphony? do  
you use the note/midinote messages, what about the busy state? Do you  
use adsr~? ...

Sorry, that last post was a bit vague. I have included my FM synth that I am trying to use within a poly~. I have been sending 'note' messages to the poly~ from the main patch containing frequency, amplitude, duration information, etc.

The FM synth uses the 'adsr~' and 'thispoly~' objects, but i think it may be one of them that is causing the problem...which is a note that will not turn off until the poly~ object is re-initialised.

I tried making 50 instances of the patch in poly~, just incase it was reaching its max, but this didnt help. Currently the poly~ is set to have 25 instances of the FM patch.

See the tutorial for examples of the mode message to thispoly to enable and

disable. BTW, I have taken to loadbang the disable because some of my polys

seem to start enabled causing huge spikes in CPU when nothing is supposed to

On 5/7/07 1:39 PM, "Stuart Penman" wrote:

See the tutorial for examples of the mode message to thispoly to enable and
disable.  BTW, I have taken to loadbang the disable because some of my polys
seem to start enabled causing huge spikes in CPU when nothing is supposed to
be happening.

On 5/7/07 1:39 PM, "Stuart Penman"  wrote:

Cheers
Gary Lee Nelson
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson

poly~ not turning of all instances.