[PD] midi to osc?

[Derek Holzer]

Hi Josh,

Welcome to the wonderful world of message construction in Pd. Your most 
basic chain will be to use [notein] to get MIDI notes and then [pack] to 
pack together the kind of OSC message the synth expects. This can all be 
done in Vanilla Pd.

More complicated messages can be done in a wide and weird number of 
ways. Best to look at the list-abs abstractions in Pd-Extended.

However, you will need Extended or the individual OSC objects on your 
system to communicate with an OSC application outside of Pd, either 
locally on your own machine or out on a network somewhere. Check the 
oscx help files in Extended. [sendOSC] is the particular object you'll 
need to send to the other OSC client software.

best,
Derek

Josh Lawrence wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been considering the idea of playing around with livenoisetools:
> 
> http://www.pawfal.org/Software/livenoisetools/
> 
> ...just for fun.  One of the problems I've come across is how to play
> "it".  The software is written to receive nothing but osc messages.
> For example, the synthesizer, itchy, needs this to play a note (from
> the doc):
> 
> /play iiiffffi [timeseconds timefrac ID frequency slidefreq volume pan message]
> Plays a note at the given time (in ntp format), on the given instrument with
> the given parameters. if the time is set to 0,0 it will ignore the time and
> play the note asap. The message parameter is interpreted as a char and if set
> to a "O" will cause an accent note to be triggered. this will be replaced by
> something more sane soon :) The slidefrequency gives a frequency to start
> sliding to (speed is defined by instrument modify commands for voices that
> support it).
> 
> I'm wondering if it would be possible to use pd as a bridge between my
> midi keyboard and this software, i.e. I play a middle C and the
> correct messages would be translated to the software.
> 
> Is this possible in pd?  (Currently I have access to vanilla...)  If
> so, can you point me to which objects I need to be looking for?
> 
> If this isn't possible, do you have any suggestions as to a better
> method for doing this?
> 
> I appreciate the help,
> 
> Josh

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