what i am wanting to acchive is thatm if i play the keyboared i am wanting GEM's image to move and change colour and things. if some one could explain this it would be a massive help this is not for anything important this is for my personal development in pd so if anyone can point me in the right direction it would help me loads

see the help patch for [notein] - this sends out numbers when notes are pressed on a connected MIDI keyboard. then you can use the numbers to do whatever you like.

Gem has plenty of documentation, you might like to find an example that comes with it that does something similar to what you want to do, and rip it apart and rebuild it in your own image.

Yes, as Claudius says; Take the note values from notein (or velocities for that matter), scale them to be appropriate for GEM manipulations, and apply them to translate, rotate, color, whatever. I like to use a line object in between so that the objects aren't so 'jumpy.'

hi all,

i'm very interested in using a MIDI controller (I own a Behringer BCF2000) with pd, but the help file for the midi objects is not very useful, and apparently [notein] works on linux only (i'm on windows xp for the moment). can anyone give me useful links or hints about using a MIDI controller in pd with a windows OS ?

thanx in advance,

em

emtv,
To start with, make sure you have your midi input set to your midi controller. Then; invoke the notein object and attach a number box to each of its outputs. You should notice that this will give you note#, velocity and channel info when you play a note.

thanx for your help, nestor. i've figured this out with [ctlin] ... will continue digging in this way... be ready, i'm coming with loads of questions (as the pd-list page seems to be buggy tonight.. I can't get it to display !)

i cant find what im looking for with in the document can someone direct me to what i need to be looking at

cheers