is anyone doing this?

I have no problem to send and receive data from pd over virtual midi ports (I use LoopMidi)

but I wonder if anyone knows or has an example I can look at as to how to then get the midi into a Processing sketch

in particular I am trying to figure out how to send midi from pd and have it changes in a running processing sketch

(I am on windows 7 by the way)

the goal is that I eventually want to use PD to work with my midi data live, and then send it to an arduino (through processing) to modify the behaviors I have running there.

I want to find a way to do this without building a break out midi input port and connecting to the arduino that, rather I would prefer to try to interact through virtual ports and code, because it seems more direct

I will put that question in another post though, as it is kind of something else...

thanks in advance for any advice/examples/ideas as to how to do this
J

Try using OSC, or Midi Yoke.

thanks, yeah I am trying with OSC.
Midi Yoke is great, but it is pretty much the same functionality as LoopMidi, unless I am missing something.

The real issue is neither the virtual ports or the protocol (osc or midi)
I have the virtual ports working and can send and receive both osc and midi wirelessly and in pure data, no problem.

The problem is how to get that data (or the results of whatever I do to it in pd!) into the arduino and get some response out.

I posted before about the [arduino] object...how to get dynamic input into that...really its a similar issue:

Is it possible to send midi data (or some other form of numbers) to the [arduino] object and get the board to change its behavior?

thats the question.

because I can certainly get numbers OUT of the arduino and use those to drive processes.

part two of question:

if I can send numbers and get meaningful results, what form do those numbers need to be in to speak with the chip?

thanks in advance!
J