[PD] makenote and duplicate notes

[Larry Troxler]

On Thursday 08 April 2004 13:54, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> William Fields hat gesagt: // William Fields wrote:
> > I am using "makenote" and I am running into a problem with duplicate
> > notes.  If I tell it to send note 32 with duration 2000ms, then 1000ms
> > later I tell it to send the same note (32 with duration 2000ms), the
> > second note gets cut off after 1000ms by the first note's note-off
> > message.  The second note-off message is still sent but is useless
> > because the note is no longer playing.
>
> ...
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> This depends, on what you want to do with these notes. Makenote's
> behaviour is correct (at least it does, what it says it would do), so
> the problem is after it. The note-off of the first note cannot know,
> that there will be another note-off later.
>
> If you want polyphony, you need to use [poly] afterwards and route
> notes accordingly. A [poly 1 1] will implicitly create a note-off
> before the second note comes, whereas a [poly 1] (== [poly 1 0]) will
> simply ignore the second, overlapping note altogether. ([poly 2 1]
> will route it to the second voice.)
>

Ouch, so much for using Poly as is on my current project then. It apparently 
needs to be enhanced a bit, because what you're saying, it seems that Poly 
doesn't allow overlapping notes with the same key. Hopefully you're wrong 
about this - it  would definitly be a bit unexpected if poly would not allow 
more than one note on the same key.