I would like to implement a modal synth using a large number of resonant filters (typically between 16 and 64). Each filter would have a different set of parameters.

I am trying to use the clone object for that but the help is not really helpful to me. Is it possible to send messages to the different instances of the cloned object to set a large number of parameters at once? Or maybe there is another way of achieving this?

Thanks in advance!

@tyldurd You can prepend messages with the number of the instance to send it there: clone_demo.zip

Great! Thanks a lot!
And is it possible to generate a long list algorithmically?

@tyldurd Sure, you can generate your list and use a counter to send to the instances.

Hmm, not sure I get what you mean... From what I have read here and there, the way to do this would be to implement a counter incremented by a metro object, right? But it is not generated at once, it's probably limited by the audio rate. Or am I missing something?

@tyldurd If you send a number to [until], it will output that number of bangs in succession. Each bang could generate the values, increase the counter, prepend the counter and send to clone. Just be careful not to bang [until] without number or exit condition or it will run into an infinite loop

Perfect! I'll try that. I am too used to "traditional" programming languages. Thanks again!

@tyldurd It could look somewhat like this:

@tyldurd Messaging is limited by the control-rate. [Messages( get processed between the blocks of 64 samples.
(LATE EDIT: I was partly wrong. Actually there are some objects which schedule msgs (sub-)sampleaccurately, such as [del] [metro] [vline~] and some more...]

If you want to update the filters externally at signalrate, which is more expensive, you can use $1 inside the clones.
Some of many ways here:
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/13268/routing-different-signals-to-clone-instances