[maxmsp] Alternative to Poly?

At 9:58 PM -0600 9/17/07, Jason wrote:
>Is there a way to allocate voices based on whether or not a buffer is still producing sound? I'm indexing a list of sample data stored in a coll object and wanted to have four voice polyphony based on how many buffers are producing sound, rather than which midi notes have received note offs.

poly~ really has very little to do with MIDI at the end of the day. What will cause a voice to be considered "active" is whether its busy and mute flags are set. Look carefully at how these messages and thispoly~ interact.

-C

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