What’s great about that is that I get to patch more, poly the gift that keeps on giving. Loading up some weird patch in the middle of some other thing sounds kinda fun

What’s also perhaps a funny little con to poly is that I’m gonna have thousands of unfinished patches in a few years, but what doth “finishing a patch” even mean…

@Nixtrove how do the poly patches slot into your chain ? Is there a routing system set up that just allows you to mix in fx etc. I am veering towards setting up a little submenu folder for this in a sampler I’m working on but also intrigued how you have implemented this with sequencing data ?

@willjames25 Working off the specific architecture I conceived a few years ago and implemented, it’s really just a matter of mixing between what I had before and whatever can be hard-switched or slowly faded into the poly slot. It’s really just sprinkling that poly shit everywhere, where the stuff is already happening, so that particular gizmo I already have (where I put it pretty much) can just do more things. Because I do not want to overwrite my old messy system p much

@willjames25 Still a WIP but I’m thinking it being pretty easy, just to queue switches between the main sequencers I have and then the poly sequencers. Downbeats pretty much, slow fades between outputs maybe a bit of bleed of both, but yeah just imagine putting a poly right next to anything you have and then switch to the poly patch slot (whatever’s in there) whenever you want, that’s the kind of freedom I’m thinking of.

@willjames25 Like the difference between something you hard coded and something that’s swappable. I’m not getting rid of the hard-coded stuff (say it like the machine as it already is) I’m just adding the swappable stuff. I will be pretty much recycling audio channels and message/event cables and inserting poly~ hosted data and sounds into the same routing. I could run down the core architecture in a separate post or in PM

@Nixtrove I get you , it does sound refreshing having a framework laid out so you can easily access you’re patches & layer - have them meld together as a result of data being shared between them and so on. I normally work on patches in max as these contained projects / tools that become a sort of performance environment. Not knowing a lot about poly, is there particular features baked in that lend itself to it being more appropriate for building swappable chains of patches?

@willjames25 Poly is well optimized which is great, the loading is very sub-perceptual and in terms of the subroutines the poly introduces, it can get hard to mentally manage although it’s just a matter of being very familiar with the signal flow and seeing the most appropriate places poly can end up in, my approach being a bit decentralized, big cthulu patches hosting smaller patches (so there’s a linear hierarchy of patches in my case). You can also turn off DSP in poly.