Greetings All,

I have constructed a patch using [fiddle~] that will take a signal from my guitar rig and output midi info via [noteout] so that I can play other synths.

Right now, if you look at the patch, I have [timer] measuring the time between attacks which is then fed eventually into [noteout]. This process is retrospective, meaning that it takes the note duration of the last note I played and applies it to the current note I am playing - not so great if I are shredding away and want to end the phrase with a sustained note that is longer than the stream of short notes that I just played because that long note I want will only have a short duration, unless I use an expression peddle through sustain subpatch that would use [ctlin 64 1] or something. That works ok, but I would really like to not have to worry about having my foot on an expression peddle to ensure the sustain.

Is there another way that I can generate a midi note-on message and have it sustained until I play another note?

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks,
dkeller

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/SIGNAL-To-MIDI.pd

Maybe you could just send a note-off when the amplitude goes below a certain level.

Hi Maelstorm,

Thank you for the idea....but excuse my ignorance, how do you send a note-off message to [makenote]?

note-ons seem to be generated automatically when there is a midi note number, velocity, and duration, thus the three ports on top of [makenote]. Would I just be making note-ons and note-offs ( and velocities) and not worry about generating specific durations?

Thank you for your future help!

dkeller

Oh, I was thinking don't use [makenote] at all here. When you get a new note from [fiddle~], send a note-on message to [noteout] and store that note number in a [f ]. When the amplitude goes below a certain threshold, bang the [f ] to make a note-off (velocity 0) message to [noteout].

Of course, you'll also want to send those note-offs when a new note is triggered since you may not go below the threshold before picking a new note. I'm a fan of using [poly 1 1] to cheat through that.

Hi Maelstorm,

Thanks for the help. I got the first part:

1. Got rid of [makenote].
2. set up a threshold so that [f ] is banged with the same note, accompanied by note-off

And you were right, some notes "stick" because my playing does not always allow for the threshold to be instantiated and a "0" velocity to get sent.

So, how do I integrate the [poly 1 1] object?

I had a look at the help for that object, but I do not get how it works.

I have attached my patch, if you are inclined to have a look.

Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!

best,
dkeller

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Signal-to-midi-2.pd

Maelstrom,

Thank you so much for your help. I figured it out.

Best,
Dkeller

I'm personally still trying to figure this out. Does anyone know how to integrate poly 1 1 into this correctly for the note-offs?

@patchworks For 8 note polyphony (except not because result is one note at a time as per op).
I cannot test so there could be an error but I have put comments to explain so you should be able to see the principle and correct them....... or change the patch to suit your requirements.
You can increase the number of notes processed by changing the 8 in [poly] and [clone].
It needs a recent vanilla Pd for [clone].
You need to replace [notein] with [fiddle~]
You could add a [timer] or a resettable [delay] to send a final noteoff [bang] message when nothing more is arriving from [fiddle~]
2-maybe.zip
David.

Oh my goodness thank you @whale-av for the contribution to such an old thread. I figured out how to integrate poly 1 1 as mentioned above and my solution looks like this:

Hopefully this and your patches help anyone who comes along in the future.