Wow. I'm speechless. You're a genius. Check out the link below for info on the project (you'll be getting a mention on the website!)

https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~odwyernc/zenTech/research.html

I just have 1 more question (ok maybe two)

as you can see from the attached "saviour.pd" (yes thats you) patch

I have the faders rigged to receive a separate bang for on and off messages. This is because processing actually sends two different messages(with the same ID but a different message name - on or off)

Whereas you seem to have done everything "in the box"

The route object will trigger the on messages perfectly but the deallocation of the voices uses the same channel so I'm wondering:

is it possible to use one [poly low] for on messages and one for off (i'm guessing not) or how can I hook up/route the [poly low] object to the faders so that the first bang on a channel is ON and the seccond OFF?

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

and the fader abstraction.

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO much

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

wadeorz is it possible to use one [poly_low] for on messages and one for off (i'm guessing not) or how can I hook up/route the [poly_low] object to the faders so that the first bang on a channel is ON and the seccond OFF?

your guess is correct, but it's quite simple with

and [route], see attached

if for some reason you have an old pd that doesn't have , you could in this patch use [pack f f] and "$2 $1"

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/saviour2.pd

what would you define as an"undefined execution order?"

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/x2.htm#s3.3

Problems can arise when a single outlet is connected (either directly or through arbitrarily long chains of message passing) to different inlets of a single object. In this case it is indeterminate which order the two inlets will receive their messages.

...eh, right. buggy then?

say I wanted to make a switch to reset in case of noise/bugs whatever.

would the safest thing be to overwrite all the arrays to 0?

Thanks again for all your wonderful help!