I'm trying to make a patch to emulate the first five seconds of Risset's Mutations 1 (

). I have five cycle~ objects tuned to the correct pitches, feeding into binary operators scaled to a default of .2. i need to scale each amp accordingly. i have been trying to use a message banged into a line~ object connected to the left inlet of the binary object, but when i trigger the message nothing happens. I made a patch just like this in Max and it worked perfectly. what am i missing?
- the patch
- line object

Not sure I completely understand you here, but if I do, you need to connect it to the right inlet of [*~] since it multiplies both inlets. You'll need to get rid of the 0.2 default argument in order for the right inlet to be a signal inlet.

Also, if you are trying to schedule envelopes with a single message, use [vline~] instead of [line~].