Hello,

While making a new polyphonic sampler, the problem I get with [poly~] is that after some time (say, 15-30 minutes at least), the voices remain "busy" though a zero should have been sent to [thispoly~]. If several voices are loaded, they don’t stop working all at the same time.

The [poly~] subpatcher mostly contains a [groove~] buffer player. The voice stealing feature is disabled. The samples are triggered with a "note-on"-[midinote( message and no "note-off"-[midinote( is sent to [poly~], as the samples have to be played entirely. The sample bank contains 315 samples that last 1, 2, 4 or 8 seconds.

I tried two methods for sending a zero to [thispoly~]:

– using [average~], as there is no amplitude envelope in the voices
– detecting the moment when the sync outlet of [groove~] reaches 1 (using [==~ 1] and [edge~])

With both, everything works normally for quite a long time, but suddenly for some reason the detection stops functionning (so the zero is not sent to [thispoly~] anymore.

"Reanimation" can be done these ways:

– changing the number of voices (which means, loading again the voices)
– switching to voice stealing mode for a short time (just for reactivating the stuck voices)
– opening the help patcher of [poly~] (!)

Did you have this problem in the past ?

Thanks for your help
-j