I am new to Pd, having some encouraging feeling successes, and some totally frustrating FAILS with no understanding why.

1. I am trying to save plain .txt as .pd, just like all the forms say,only to get "error"
pd does not like the X it seems. how does one save these .txt as working .pd?

2. I am trying to use the 'fiddle" object to do pitch to midi. I dl the only .pd I could find http://www.imartron.com/pd/rep2/rep2.shtml (again, how does one save .pd from .txt on a mac??)

I have the audio from my soundcard adc~ 1 as the inlet, and it works.
the midi out test works
I see midi activity on my midi hub when I set the outlet to noteout , but it does not get any response from my synth. any idea how one sets things like midi channels etc? this synth response to just about any midi data you throw at it, and the hub confirms its coming out, soooo.......

I don't use Mac, so I dunno how the first problem can be solved (On Linux and Win I simply do a 'save as' in my browser and the file is properly saved as a Pd file.

For the rest, just open the help file of the objects you wanna understand : right click on the object, select 'help'. Read the tutorials that you will find in Pd's tree.

You may also want to use [Sigmund],later, it is better at gessing pitches than Fiddle.

Nau

For saving the patches from that website on a Mac, the easiest thing to do is to hold down control and click on them and choose Download Linked File As... (if using Safari or Save As... if using Firefox). If you've already saved it as a .txt file, you can simply locate it in the Finder, click on it, press return, and then change the extension to .pd. All .pd files have #X objects in them, so I'm not sure what problem you're talking about in terms of it not liking the X. Make sure, though, that if you're using TextEdit to save them that you don't save them as .rtf. If you renamed a .rtf to .pd, it will definitely not work.

As for your problem with the midi out, if the Midi test is working, then I think you may be having with generating the correct notes and velocities. Have you tried printing them out to be sure that you're creating them correctly?

thanks,

I did try a few browser based options to save the patches posted as text, that one needs to copy>paste>save.
I finally found saving and emailing plain .txt to myself, and saving as .pd when I dl. these .pd files run!
something mac finder does when it resaves as .pd screws it up.

and I am guessing [pd midi] is some sort of yoke table created just for the tests.
I checked the Rafael Hernandez video tutorials, and he used [noteout 1] for midi out ch1, and that seems to be doing what it should

M,[;;<>