[PD] fun with nqpoly4

[Phil Stone]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner 
> wrote:
>> > I just wrote a quick test of what happens when you play hundreds of  
>> > oscillators.  Thanks to nqpoly4, its quite easy.  
>>     
>
>   

nqpoly4 is great fun, warts and all.  I look forward to playing with 
this when I get home, hc.

> Okay, this inspired me to finally do something I wanted to do for a
> loooong time: I think, nqpoly4 is a very useful patch, however I
> always found it hard to see what's going on, I didn't like the use of
> the non-deprecated namecanvas, where a subpatch would be enough, and
> most of all I found the editing restrictions awkward to say the least. 
>
> Attached is a reworked version of nqpoly4, which should be compatible
> but I only tested it with your many-osc.pd so far. 
>
> Changes besides cleanup include an additional inlet that lets you
> change the degree of polyphony on the fly. Further editing of nqpoly4
> does not need to follow the old instructions about counting object
> indices and creating connections in a certain order etc. You can edit
> the patch without such hassles now just like any other Pd patch.
>   

Excellent!

> A final change I didn't do yet is to change the name to something
> other than "nqpoly4", which I find a bit hard to type and to memorize.
> Suggestions welcome.
>   

How about "pgpoly" for "pretty good polyphony"?

I dream of a polyphony object with the dynamic-subpatch-creating 
advantages of nqpoly4, combined with the capacity to match up note-offs 
with previous note-ons, which is necessary for live (i.e., indeterminate 
duration) polyphonic music.  Such a beast could be called "vgpoly", for 
"very good polyphony".  :-)  This more robust nqpoly4 object you've made 
makes improvement and extension a little easier to contemplate -- 
thanks, Frank.  Once I have a little more PD experience under my belt, 
maybe I'll give "vgpoly" a try.


Phil Stone