Hi there,

I am using a [poly] object to pack an extra value alongside voice number, velocity and midi note data, which is the set index value for individual operators. The problem I am having is that I am sending this value to 16 voice channels, but it seems to be being sent to the same channels twice in a row, rather than one at a time.

Any ideas?

-James

Attach a patch that illustrates what you are doing so we can find the problem.

There you go, let me know if there's anything you need clarification with.

Remember, its the index data (next to the [poly] object) that is being sent to the voice channels.

Thanks dude! Owe you a lot! I may just have to send you a little thank you on paypal once this is all over

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/JDX7.zip

Press [startall bang] and the toggle above [metro] to start it working and playing a note by the way.

Hey man, any luck with the patch?

I'm not certain because this is kind of a lot of patch to look at. It looks to me like you're trying to determine the index value based on the velocity of the current note. If that's the case then I would take the part that's determining that out of [presets] and stick it in [pdx7channel]. That way, you don't even need to [pack] the value after [poly]. The way you have it now, it's using the value from the previous note.

Yep, done that. Still no cigar. Because Pdx7channel is a subpatch, saving the index value to that means that it uses the same information simultaneously. I'll include an updated version of my patch, just to show you.

(New update)

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/JDX7.zip

I actually meant to literally copy and paste the part in [presets] that calculates indval into [pdx7channel]. If you are calculating something that only applies to a single voice, then it doesn't really make sense to put it in a global area. That's just going to confuse things further.

In fact, I think you might want to spend time re-working your patch before it gets too too crazy, because there are things like that all over the place, making it VERY difficult to debug. Taking a look at this problem as an example, in [pdx7channel] you have a that sends the velocity somewhere in the (global) parent patch to calculate values, such as indval. But then it also gets sent to another receive in [pdx7voice], and that is used to actually trigger sending indval. Why? All that stuff is just voice-specific. Anything that only matters for one particular voice at a time should be contained in the voice abstraction. You're only looking to calculate indval for one voice, so keep it there to make sure you don't lose track of where it's going.

It's also not helping that you have individual voices sending on global [send] and [receive]s. When one voice is activated, it sends its velocity over . BUT there is an [r velocity] in every voice! That's not good. You don't want one voice interfering with the others. You should really get in the habit of using $0 for that sort of thing. $0 is a variable that Pd assigns a value to for every patch and abstraction (not subpatches). It doesn't really matter what it is; it's just there to make sure there is no cross-talk between abstractions with the same and [r ] names, as well as

Awesome, thank you so much dude. I will try and clear it up as best as I can.