Hello everyone!

As a disclaimer, I am very new to Pd. I am using it to take input from my laptop's keyboard and outputting through MIDI to Garageband. In the project attached, the note duration is a fixed rate (1000). How can I make the note last only as long as I hold a key on my keyboard?

Thank you very much!

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

You should be able to do what you need by hacking Gromit's patch in this thread:

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-9502-sustaining-duration-note-using-key-keyup-release

Also,

http://puredata.hurleur.com/viewtopic.php?pid=31337#p31337

I wonder if it would be possible to make a [keydown] external that fired a single bang regardless of OS or how long the key was held down...

Thank you! I'll try to figure these out.

If i remember correct, my choice was to disable keyrepetition in the OS. Plus I made this thing that it only reacts if CAPSLOCK is pressed.
(hope that still works, didn´t test now)

Ups, didn´t read the other posts -> links. mine is a little obsolete..

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