Trying to attach a sub oscillator to a 6 note polyphonic synth.

cannot get the sub osc (monophonic in a subpatch) to recognise the lowest note that is being played.

i have tried a lot of combinations of moses, spigot, min, max, minmax. but cannot get it too work.

i can get it too recognise lets say note 55, and obviously hold this note if note 62 is pressed after - ie no voice stealing.

but i cannot get it to change to 62 if note 55 is turned to note off. ie it will not play another note till a key is depressed again.

any help on this?

i'm at work, so i can't try out, if it works, but you could try to store the midi note-values in an array (multiplied by result of velocity values connected to [> 0]), indexed by the voice number from [poly] and use [Uzi] and [tabread] to serialize the values in the array, so that you can find the samllest number.

[notein]
| |
[poly 12 1]
| | \
| [expr $f1*($f2>0)] <------- note value is zero in case of note off
\ /
X
/ \
[tabwrite array1] <------- write to the array, voice # is index

to check the values for the smallest one:

[bang( <----- should be banged by a [poly] out,
| immediately after structure above (t b f)
|
[t b b b]
| | |
| | [arraysize array1] <---- send arraysize to uzi, so it counts
| | | from 1 to arraysize
| | |
| [Uzi]
| |
| [- 1] <-------- begin counting at zero to arraysize-1
| |
| [tabread array1] <---- read array1 at index
| |
| [deny 0] <--------filter note offs
| |
| [t f f f]
| / X
| | [<] <------compare with previous number
| | | if smaller, let it pass spigot
| [spigot]
| |
[float]
|
[nbx\ <-- actual lowest number in the array

no guarantee that this works - as i said before, i'm at work and can't verify, what i tell you here. but this could give you an idea, how it could be done.

that is an astounding response., and a credit to open source.

now i understand why i was having such a nightmare with it!

i will try tomorrow and let you know. but serious thankyou due.

sorry, i tried it at home, and it didn't work, like i hoped it would do.
nevertheless, i found a similar way to get it work.
have a look at the attachment.

edit: for some reason, i cannot upload files anymore, i get an error message...
so, copy the following text in a textfile, and rename it to "lowes_note.pd" (or whatever..):

#N canvas 730 109 586 557 10;
#X obj 107 32 notein;
#X obj 115 87 poly 12 1;
#X obj 115 174 tabwrite array1;
#X obj 140 113 expr $f1*($f2>0);
#X obj 115 138 swap;
#X obj 88 62 t b f;
#X obj 88 197 t b b b;
#X obj 127 221 arraysize array1;
#X obj 107 252 Uzi;
#X obj 122 298 tabread array1;
#X obj 122 320 deny 0;
#X obj 122 277 - 1;
#X obj 122 341 list prepend;
#X obj 155 366 l;
#X obj 122 366 list-sort asc;
#X msg 122 390 \$1;
#X floatatom 122 418 5 0 0 0 - - -;
#X obj 194 26 table array1;
#X connect 0 0 5 0;
#X connect 0 1 1 1;
#X connect 1 0 4 0;
#X connect 1 1 3 0;
#X connect 1 2 3 1;
#X connect 3 0 4 1;
#X connect 4 0 2 0;
#X connect 4 1 2 1;
#X connect 5 0 6 0;
#X connect 5 1 1 0;
#X connect 6 0 12 1;
#X connect 6 1 8 0;
#X connect 6 2 7 0;
#X connect 7 0 8 1;
#X connect 8 2 11 0;
#X connect 9 0 10 0;
#X connect 10 0 12 0;
#X connect 11 0 9 0;
#X connect 12 0 13 0;
#X connect 12 0 14 0;
#X connect 13 0 12 1;
#X connect 14 0 15 0;
#X connect 15 0 16 0;

hmm. the first way didn't work, as you and i both found out.

the second way, i havent a clue how to implement.

i assume make it an .rtf file first with text edit by copy and paste - then rename the rtf file to a .pd file, then open with pd?

that certainly doesn't work. stream of errros and a time window.

on what os are you? you can do it with every simple text editor.
on win, use the windows editor, copy the code inside the file and save it as "lowest_note.txt"
after that, close the windows editor and rename the file to "lowest_note.pd"
on linux you can use gedit or geany or whatever, it's the same procedure....

With TextEdit, it defaults to rich-text format. You need to change it to just plain text format before saving. Just press Command+Shift+T to do that. Then save it and change the extension to .pd in Finder.