please see attached. Is there a smarter / more efficient way to do this? I seam to have a propensity to the [del] object . . .

Thanks.

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

When using [line~] that's more or less it. [vline~] allows you to add a delay time to the message so you can schedule several ramps at once. To truly harness this, though, it would help to understand lists in Pd. Check out this tutorial on using lists and [vline~] to make an adsr envelope generator, if you're interested:

http://www.footils.org/cms/weblog/2009/mar/21/adsr-envelopes-pd/

@Maelstorm The link you posted is no longer valid. I AM interested in learning about using lists and vline~. Do you have any other suggestions for resources I might check out?