Keep pitches of held MIDI notes in a bag

The bag object stores an unordered collection of integers. You can put numbers into the bag or remove them, and you can query what’s in the bag using the bang message. You put a number into the bag by providing the number along with a 1 (or any non-zero number), and you remove it by specifying the number along with a 0. Because a 0 or a non-zero number in the right inlet indicates whether to remove or include the number coming in the left inlet, bag is well suited for holding MIDI pitch values, with the note velocity meaning “include” for note-on messages and “remove” for note-off messages. So, bag can be useful for keeping track of what MIDI pitches are currently on.