Hi. I'm making a sample trigger mechanism with the help of a piezo disc. I want to trigger the sample with varying velocity following how hard i hit the disc. Now, i've set a box only letting the numbers above silence through in this fashion:

adc~ 
I
env~
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max 30

And i can use threshold~ to trigger the sample. But to control the amp of each strike I need to store the highest value I get when striking the disc. Any ideas how this is done?

Thanks

@bamsehopp Hello..... This (maybe there is a better way, or a ready made object?) is a way to do it.........
it will put out a value relative to the biggest number that it has received..... so that the biggest hit is "1" and other hits are made proportional by using it as a "side-chain" to control a volume control.
Each new maximum in the volume of the input reduces the gain.
range2.zip

I cannot let you use this idea before I patent it of course, as you have inadvertently pushed me to invent the "PD automatic feedback killer!"........... try it out on your laptop....
David.

You might be better off just using [bonk~] to trigger the hits, as it will detect transients and give you a velocity.

Hi there! I know it’s been 5 years, but I stumbled upon this thread and thought I’d share what I usually use as an automatic feedback killer

I guess the advantage is that it remains in the signal domain. This example uses the envelope of one signal to inversely modulate another, but using send~ / receive~ it can easily modulate itself. Hope this makes sense ...pumpin.pd