score

The coll object stores an indexed collection of messages. You can trigger those messages to be sent out, just by sending coll the index of the desired message. One way that this can be useful is that you can make an entire musical score in the format of a collection of note messages, each of which contains whatever information you consider vital for describing a note. That’s similar to the way that languages like csound and cmusic read a score file to play notes.

In Max there are many ways to schedule an event to occur at a certain time in the future, using delay, pipe, or timepoint, for example. What if you want to schedule a whole collection of triggers or messages to occur at different specific points in time? Here are a few approaches.