[PD] MIDI controller question

[David McCallum]

         Run your notein through a "select 37" (if you want note 37 to 
trigger it). Have the select bang a toggle. Every time you press the 
button/note it will change the value of the toggle.

david


At 01:30 PM 10/02/2003 -0500, Stephen Martin wrote:

>I can get input from the buttons, but (like matthew said) it's not a toggle,
>so I can only get a positive value for as long as my finger is on the
>button.  It goes back to zero when I lift my finger off.
>
>so, here's what I think would work, but I don't know PD well enough to do
>it... and this is where I need the quick help... it seems simple in
>theory...
>
>is there a way to have a toggle triggered with, say, a value of 37, but not
>go off when it receives a value of 0... and THEN, go off when it receives
>the 37 value again - basically every time this value is passed, the toggle
>goes off or on, but by only using one value, not a zero and a positive
>integer...
>
>help?
>
>STEVE
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: pd-list-admin at iem.kug.ac.at [mailto:pd-list-admin at iem.kug.ac.at]On
>Behalf Of Matthew Allen
>Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:03 PM
>To: pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at
>Subject: RE: [PD] MIDI controller question
>
>
>
>I actually had the same problem, And couldn't find a work around in pd.
>
>What I ended up doing is having the 16 buttons send notes I normally don't
>use (note #s 111 to 127) and setting up a small abstraction that converts
>the note on and note off for these guys to just a labeled on and off value.
>I just needed them to trigger things, so the whole toggle bit I never really
>dealt with.
>
>m.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Martin [mailto:squaw at lollygagger.org]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:04 PM
> > To: pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at
> > Subject: [PD] MIDI controller question
> >
> > I have a feeling this question is more general
> > than specific to a piece of hardware, so here goes...
> > I've checked all the peavey documentation...
> > Is there a certain way that PD recognizes MIDI/HEX data,
> > so that I could have each button toggle between, say,
> > 0 and 1, and thusly trigger a toggle button?
> >
> > I hope I explained that properly?! ;)
>
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