You'll have to pardon me as I've just started working with PD but my question should be fairly easy to answer...

I'm working on a patch that will allow midi 'notes' (from a midi keyboard) to trigger rgb values. From my beginners perspective the easiest way to do this is to have the values from the lowest note to the highest note read a table/array of rgb values which are then sent to GEM so that each note always corresponds to the same rgb value. The nice thing about this is that I can set the table to read different arrays so that i can switch between different 'color schemes'.

Unfortunately i cannot figure out a way to arrange rgb values in a table that can then be routed to the message: which i have been using in previous patches to control the color of my GEM Objects. I can't seem to find anything that explains in detail or example the color objects and messages related to GEM.
Also for later patches that may involve multiple objects paired to polyphonic midi notes this seem like the wrong way to approach this patch.
Also, could i just create a trigger that send out a bang according to the numbers from my [notein] object

I'm just a begginer also, but relatively to the rgb problem, I think I can help. Midi notes have values between 0 and 127, and RGB values are between 0 and 255. Because of that, you will have to convert the 0-127 range to a 0-255 range. Imagine that A is a midi and B is a rgb value. The calc will be A*255/127=B

Hope this helps, I'm a begginer too

Thanks, this seems like it would work. However, i'd like to personally decide the rgb value that is associated with the midi note rather than giving it all up to pure mathematics. (...ehh how whould you multiply the fraction 225/127 on pure data anyways?)

also... what object do you use to input your rgb data? I have been using a color message straight into a [gemwin] which seems to take a three separate decimal values in range from 0 to 1

well you would use [pack f f f] to get your three values into the message.

You could always load your values into a text file. then load each line on a midi note.
I've never used pd to read a text file, but if you search, or look in the documentation there will be something in that.

something like this perhaps? This one is a prototype for the real synesthesia patch series I will work on eventually. One which can switch between palettes, eg, a color/sound system as perceived by Kandinsky, one as perceived by Scriabin, another for any synesthesiac who spent time describing their malady.

This one strips the octave displacement from the midi (leaving only a float between 0 and 1) and performs three trig functions to generate a RGB color. Arbitrary, but generates some pretty things. It outputs the color in addition to graphically displaying the RGB components and the composite color which results.

If your handle refers to the problem you are presenting here, theepicproblem, I am in agreement.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/synesthes.pd