Hi, I'm trying to make a patch: MIDI keyboard => puredata => FluidSynth.

(FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer, I use it as output with the "Qsynth" GUI interface.)
I use puredata on Linux.

These are the connections in Jack:

This is the patch:

Playing my MIDI keyboard, I hear the sounds correctly.
But there are two things I need to understand:

1. Why does it also sound at the instant I lift the key?

2. In [makenote] I set a duration of 1000: how can I make the sound last for as long as I hold down the keyboard key?

Thank you,
a.

@atux The keyboard sends (note velocity) when you press the key, and (note 0) when you lift the key.
So [makenote] sends [note 60 1000] when you press and [note 60 1000] when you lift the key because you have only connected the "note" outlet of [notein] to [makenote] and so you have dropped the velocity data.

To have the note play continuously while the key is pressed you need to send (note velocity) when you press and (note 0) when you lift.... directly to [noteout]
You cannot use [makenote] because it sets a duration.

If you always want a velocity of 60 then I think you need to do this...

David.

@whale-av said:

I think you need to do this...

Thanks, it works fine.
Now I'm making a patch where everything I play is repeated as is with a 1 second delay.
For now this seems to work:

MIDI_delay.pd

But...it works only for a particular case: a single note with a duration shorter than the delay time (in this case: 1 second).
So now I would like to generalize the patch to:

1. any duration of notes (even longer than the delay time)

2. any number of notes played before the delay

Advice is accepted...
Bye,
a.

@atux send the note messages directly to a [pipe f f 1000] instead of a [delay] and [timer]

@seb-harmonik.ar said:

@atux send the note messages directly to a [pipe f f 1000] instead of a [delay] and [timer]

Thanks, I changed it like this:

MIDI_pipe.pd

This works well.
(Although when I play quickly and the notes overlap, maybe something strange happens. I don't know, I have to do some tests.)

Thank you,
a.