[PD] fun with nqpoly4

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:17 PM, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

Very nice! If its truly backwards, you should check in your update to  
the CVS.

abstractions/nqpoly/nqpoly4

A better name would be good, perhaps something related to managing  
instances.  Perhaps [instances].


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