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Multi Poly simpleFM - Live11

by opticon93

This is the younger sibling of my Multi Poly simpleFM, suita...

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Type
Instrument
Author
opticon93
License
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Live version
12.3.5
Max version
9.0.10
Downloads
214
Updated
2026-02-11

Description

This is the younger sibling of my Multi Poly simpleFM, suitable for Live 11. I needed to completely remove the Morphable Oscillators and the Meld Filters. On the bright side, its much more CPU efficient.

You can choose any combination of Polyphony and Multiphony, as long as they multiply to be less than 1,204. For example, 32x32 gives 32 independent notes, each triggering 32 parralel (but different) copies of simpleFM~. For practical reasons, I settled on a limited 10x10 grid for the display and 3x3 for the initial Poly/Multi configuration.

To configure, change the Multi and Poly to whatever legal combination you want and then hit the Config button.

Many of the important parameters can be modified with Multi Channel messages. For each message, the min value is set by the main interface knob, while the +Δ sets the distance to the Max. Each channel gets a random value between min and Max.

Everything else is mostly self explanatory, at least audibly.

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Comments (11)

  • irishmos · February 07 2026
    Still not getting a signal :/
  • opticon93 · February 07 2026
    In the newest version, I took out the last remaining external object which I've been using for at least 5 years. Its frozen with nothing needed to be included and no specialty objects whatsoever. I don't know. I don't think its a Live11 thing. I'm going to need to downgrade one of my computers for testing.
  • opticon93 · February 08 2026
    This works on my Live 11 PC laptop. It must be a Mac thing, except everything under the hood is totally generic max objects that should work anywhere.
  • stevefrances · February 08 2026
    no sound here, MacOS
  • opticon93 · February 08 2026
    It would be great if somebody could check the Max Console for error messages. I don't get any at all. That way, I can find out which haystack to look for needles in.
  • stevefrances · February 08 2026
    ive tried again and now is working on MacOS
  • stevefrances · February 08 2026
    its working, amazing how close sound to my Korg Monopoly. This version working has only one type of filter, the initial version I tried yesterday had a lot of different type of filters. Is it possible?
  • opticon93 · February 08 2026
    Woohoo! Giant sigh of relief. Thank You!
    The main version (link below) has morphable oscillator Shapes with Shape Effects and the Meld Filters. Those are only available in Live12. I had to cut all of that out to get it to work in Live 11.
    I forgot to put in Pitchshift (cents) Deviation. I'm hoping to have that done later today.
    https://maxforlive.com/library/device/14511/multi-poly-simplefm
  • irishmos · February 08 2026
    Working!
  • opticon93 · February 08 2026
    Awesome!!!
    Unfortunately, I think I've made a crazy technical miscalculation in the Voice allocation. It looks like its actually triggering successive pitches for each note. If Multi is 3 and you press C3, you get C3, C3# and D, instead of three copies of C3.
    I think I've almost got it figured out.
  • opticon93 · February 08 2026
    So I've added pitch Shifting and corrected the pitch voice allocation. The Deviate button is just for show and is always on. I couldn't figure out how to have it both ways.

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