I'm trying to set up a patch to have a midi controller trigger specific bangs within the patch. Before I go about buying a MIDI controller, I thought I'd look for a MIDI controller emulator in order to test the use of it. I know all MIDI controllers are not the same, but I figured an emulator would be better than nothing.

I did a few google searches for MIDI emulators for Mac OS X but didn't find much. I found one Monome emulator, but that requires MAX/MSP in order to run.

Any one have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Thoeth,

Check out the Virtual Pd Monome at the link below,... and tell us what it's like.

http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=202&page=1#Item_0

Good luck, and keep well ~ Shankar

Also, just for future reference in case you come across something else like that again, Max/MSP patches can be run using Max Runtime, which is free. But yeah, use the Pd version. ;-p

Well I'm looking at the readme.rtf in the .zip Shankar linked to and am already confused.

2. enter the name of the app you wish to communicate with in the app_chooser box (e.g. life, mlr, box). This gets inserted in transmitted OSC messages, and is used to choose which OSC messages to act upon.

3. startup the app (e.g. life, mlr, 64 step)

The app_chooser box just looks like a comment above a number box. I can't click on it, or edit it.