Music 171 homework 4

This homework assignment is designed to give you practice making a voice bank using abstractions. The assignment is to make a 4-voice polyphonic synthesizer. To keep things simple, the "voices" can just be sinusoids with amplitudes controlled with line~ objects. The synthesizer should play "notes" passed as messages; in this case, the patch should generate notes from a probability distribution (another technique we haven't used yet).

Your successful patch should be able to make sounds like this.

To make the patch (each of the following steps is worth 2 points for a total of 10):

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