The way I do it is to just make one big ass buffer~ outside the poly~ and use thispoly~ to create a recording start offset which is unique to each voice.

-A

I am not sure to understand exactly what you want but you can select a different buffer in each voice of a poly quite easily using the number of the voice (given by thispoly~) and sprintf to build the name of the buffer to choose.

Roald Baudoux

Thanks Andrew and Roald,

Clever solution, Andrew, but I think I'm going to go with Roald's sprintf, it's kind of slick and will require less puzzling when trying to work with poke's and the like.

Ethan

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It sounds like you have a really similar issue to one that I had not very long ago. I was basically trying to find out how to duplicate subpatches that had buffers. Someone on this list told me to look into #0 naming, which helped a lot. Try page 418 of the Max Tutorials and Topics manual under the heading : # in object and message boxes. That's where I found my answer and it's even more native and slick than sprintf, since that requires an extra object.

nic

what i do is creating a random name at loadbang and then (with set) name the buffer and the objects accessing it (peek~, index~ etc)

best

kasper

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