Hi.

I have an issue I can`t manage to solve

I created a polyphonic synthesizer.
I have an abstraction for the actual synthesizer, which contains the filter and velocity envelopes.
I then use [clone] to load this abstraction in order to achieve polyphony.
After that, I made the [clone] instance itself into another abstraction, so I can call this polyphonic synthesizer multiple times and assign it to different tracks or step sequencers.
So far, that’s all working — let’s call this abstraction synthclone.

Now I’d like to send values like cutoff, resonance, etc., to one of these synthclone abstractions.
How would I do that?

Because it’s basically an abstraction inside an abstraction, I’m not sure how to send values to each synthclone — which in turn needs to pass these values down to its internal polyphonic synthesizer abstraction.

My solution so far: I created an inlet for the polyphonic synthesizer abstraction, and in my synthclone abstraction, I added inlets which passes values down to the polyphonic synth abstraction.
I think I also have to send the message all $1 to it in order to make it work, but that seems pretty complicated overall. Also I would probably need so many inlets for all the values I want to control, its hard to keep that in order.
I’d rather use send and receive directly in the polyphonic synth abstraction, if that’s possible.

Sorry, to basically make it short, if I create my synthclone abstraction like synthclone 4, I would need to pass the 4 to my synthabstraction inside clone. I am able to pass it to synthclone with $1 but then I can`t get this value inside the clone object

You can prefix the number of the cloned synth in a message to that synth eg 2 cutoff $1 then within the cloned synth and route the cutoff value and pass it on polyphonically with all cutoff $1
clone-project.zip

Hey Balwyn.

Thank you so much for your help, but I’m not sure if that’s what I’m trying to do, or maybe I just don’t fully understand it yet?
I tried simplifying it as much as I can. I basically call the testSynthClone abstraction and give it the number 3., because later on I will have multiple abstractions.
I want to pass this number down to the actual testSynth abstraction, so that it becomes a unique identifier for that particular abstraction.
I’m able to pass it down to testSynthClone, but passing it further to testSynth using $1 doesn’t work.
If that makes sense?

@impression All clones are automatically assigned $1..... normally from 0 but here starting at 1.....
Clone is [clone -s 1 6voices_part 800 800]

Put a [receive] inside the receiving abstraction and [route] your message to the correct abstraction using [route $1]

The message will be e.g. [6 cutoff 0.378(
Where "cutoff 0.378" will be received at the outlet of [route $1] by the abstraction number 6.
Sent to [s curve] (in this case)......
David.

give testSynthClone a unique argument $0-three
in testSynthClone put [r in-$1]
in testPD put
[ s in-$0-three]
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[all cutoff $1(
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[clone testSynth 4]

testPD.zip

@Balwyn Personally I wouldn't bother with $0 as the clones and nested clones can have more arguments like this......
this.zip

Edit... I have not passed on an argument for the first clone.... so 20 messages received....obviously incorrect.... but no time to fix it now. But easily doable...

David.