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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Matthew,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That’s a clever solution for switching back and forth between two different, *<b>preset</b>* voice-number values, and I may just try it, as I’m mainly wishing to switch between monophony and n-voice polyphony (and ‘n’ could be fixed at
creation time).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The more general approach, allowing dynamic changing of the number of voices, is shown in the pull request mentioned by Nicolas. I hope it gets included into Pd.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And you are correct; it can be done in a non-glitchy way – it’s not that I *<b>want</b>* the glitching, I was just prepared to accept it in my use case. As it stands now, I have to change the voice count argument to my synthesizer and re-instantiate
it, which is extremely disruptive.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your solution.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Phil<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">matthew brandi <mfbrandi@outlook.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 6:05 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Philip Stone <pkstone@ucdavis.edu>, "pd-list@lists.iem.at" <pd-list@lists.iem.at><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [PD] Any alternative to [poly] allowing dynamic number of voices?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 10/07/2019 05:40, Philip Stone wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been using [poly] for a long time … the number of voices can only be set at creation time. I’d love to be able to change that dynamically … I know this will be glitchy, and don’t care — I won’t be doing it during audio output<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Dear Phil<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Apologies in advance for my stupid questions, but …<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>If — and it is a big “if” — you have only a small number of poly configurations to switch between and if as you say you are only doing it when no audio is being output, can’t you do this with a wrapper around multiple [poly] objects? Attached an example
abstraction for switching between two different voice counts (it ignores out-of-range voice counts, but it might better take a configuration number at its right inlet); it stops all notes before switching to the new voice count, but that is not a problem in
your use case, right? I am pretty sure you have thought of this already — almost certain, in fact.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>That wouldn’t do if you were dynamically creating/destroying arbitrarily many voices, but then you could create/destroy [poly] objects, too, right?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>That is not to say that being able to change voice count in [poly] wouldn’t be a useful feature, but if it were to be implemented, why not do it in a non-glitchy way (i.e. don’t clear the object, and stop the notes only for the voices removed when reducing
the voice count)?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What kind of glitch did you have in mind, anyway?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Best<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>m<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>matthew brandi | 020 8882 4616<o:p></o:p></pre>
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