Hi

A practical question concerning using PD to control (trigger) sounds that are in Logic (*) - i.e. synths, drums or keyboard sounds. I imagine that you can patch the two together via Soundflower or Jack, but .... how can one trigger the sounds within the program.

To give a concrete example, how could one trigger the EFM1 Synth (and it's sounds), or maybe it's not possible?

Any suggestions, or solutions, are gladly welcome.

Thanks in advance.

*= Of course it could be ProTools, Nuendo etc.

hi joesh,

jack and soundflower are for routing audio between applications, say you want to route the audio from skype into pd or whatever else.

to "patch them together" you are supposed to use midi. on osx that's trivial because you just need to open utilities -> audio midi configuration and then turn on the IAC driver. now you are able to use it as midi out in pd and as midi in in logic, this means you can send any control message you want.

hope this helps.

Hi Guido

I'm sorry I wasn't clear about Soundflower/Jack I got my words mixed, yes indeed it's for routing. However, don't I need to route Pd into Logic, or does it just work via the midi preferences, as you suggest. I see 'caps lock keyboard' (*) mentioned in the 'input' section, but that's the opposite of what I want. I've selected the IAC driver - if it's worked - but no joy as yet.

I remember asking Dr Hernandez the same question, but he also didn't seem to really know. If I remember correctly he just said 'it must be possible', but with no further explanation.

Anyhow thanks, I'm going to look at that.

* = If you don't know Logic it's a keyboard that works from you keypad. it's very limited, probably easier to use [key] than it is a caps lock keyboard.