I'm totally new at this Pure Data business, and I'm trying make a basic synthesizer that's controllable from my MIDI keyboard. It's going alright so far, but I'm having trouble getting polyphony using [polypoly]. So here's my questions:

1. How do I get [polypoly] to respond to my keyboard? I've tried patching the first two outlets of [notein] into the first inlet on [polypoly] and hooking that up to [dac~], but I'm not getting any audio.

2. How do I change the instrument in [polypoly] to my own synth? I tried imitating [voice-poly], which seems to refer to [pd $0-instr] by making a similar patch that referred to a copy of my instrument. Again, nothing.

It seems like I might just not have the MIDI inputs into [polypoly] correct, but I've been fooling around for awhile and I'm stuck. Any suggestions? I can post the patches if that will help.

How come I can't create an object called [polypoly] or [voice-poly]?

Win Xp || Pd 0.40.3-extended-20080721

You'll need to download the abstractions from here:

http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/abstractions/footils/foo/

You'll want polypoly.pd, polypoly-wrap.pd, polypoly-help.pd, and voice-poly.pd to get full functionality with the help file.

Thanks!