Augustine Bannatyne - Leudar

Hi - Id like to have 100 instances of the following granular synth patch with each instance corrosponding to a different buffer. I would also like the outputs of the different instances of poly to go to different outputs (32 channel out to be precise) - can this be done with #0 and poly somehow ?

using-poly-with-buffers-and-0

We'd need to know how the 100 [buffer~]s would be named, then set the buffer arguments on the [groove~]s accordingly.

Also, how are you assigning channels to the different instances? Since the number of voices isn't a power of 2, it might not be as 'neat'.

We'd need to know how the 100 [buffer~]s would be named, then set the buffer arguments on the [groove~]s accordingly.
Also, how are you assigning channels to the different instances? Since the number of voices isn't a power of 2, it might not be as 'neat'.


In the end the solution was quite simple - we just put the groove and buffer in the poly subpatch with a name like 0#whatever (it wouldnt work wth just 0# without a word next to it - thus "whatever"). The 0# instantly assigned an individual number to each instances buffer/groove so 1009whatever, 1010whatever, 1011whatever etc etc Even though poly assigns weird numbers to 0# the poly instances are still indexed as 1,2,3,4 etc so you could target the individual buffers from outside poly to read samples so target1 read blablabla.wav, target2 read blablabla2.wav etc works like a charm !

If the buffers don't exist outside of the poly~ or don't need to be referred to outside of the poly~, then of course it doesn't matter what they're called as long as they're unique. In that case buffer handling is all done within an instance, so your solution is great.

Now how did you go about routing the audio from all those voices?

In this case I wanted the grains coming out of anyone of 32 channels - randomly. So the poly subpatch has a gate with 32 outputs, 32 out~s and a random number generator to tell gate~ which channel to send the signal out of.

Sorry about the length code - (how do you do that pasted max patcher thingy ?) :

Yeeep that is a pain to read when on a phone!

Select everything in the patch then do "copy compressed" and past that into your message (the code will show up like mine did)

Yeeep that is a pain to read when on a phone!
Select everything in the patch then do "copy compressed" and past that into your message (the code will show up like mine did)


With this you can minimize artifacts from channel output switching, and also potentially 'spread' the output across multiple channels. Might be fun to play with (haven't tested it since i don't have a 32 channel sound system ;)

Using poly with buffers and #0 ?