I am trying to make an arpeggiator that takes a midi chord as input and outputs a midi arpeggio. I have a very simple patch that works pretty well, but have the problem that when the midi chord first comes in it automatically bangs all of the notes through.

I think i could fix this with a nasy string of spigots and toggles, but it would be sloppy, and i think that there has to be an easier way to do this.

I've attached the patch that I'm working on.

needs some sort of midi input and a softsynth to attach it to to work right.

thanks

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/arper.pd

i changed the way the values were stored (put them in a table) and that solves the problem.

prolly better that way anyway

ok then.. i've got another question.

this thing works pretty well, although its unfinished.

The problem i am having now is that i would like to be able to use chords with different numbers of voices. right now it is set up to use 3 voices and that works pretty well. using different voices doesn't really work right now because of the way higher octaves of the arpeggio. I've set it up to do chords with 4 or 5 voices and they work fine, but i'm not sure how to set it up to handle chords with a variable number of voices. I'd like to give it the ability to take 8 voices.

In the patch, after it unpacks the chord, it populates number boxes with the voices that come in, when changing to a chord with 3 voices from one with a higher number, the boxes that are unused stay at their previous values. If i could figure out how to reset them to 0, i could use booleans to do the switch... but i don't know how to do that.

any ideas?????

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/arper.pd

sorry I do not have any help, but I think your patch is very cool. I downloaded it and sent it to the osc and it was quite fun.