Hello all,

I am brand new to PD and would like to create a patch on my laptop that takes input from a USB MIDI drum controller and plays back the appropriate drum samples (based on velocity and key).. I am trying to write the patch and get it working on my Windows 8.1 64bit laptop, but I later want to upload the patch to my Beaglebone Black.

Are there any patches I could maybe start out with and modify to achieve this, or any advice in general on how to do this? Also, does anyone have an idea of probelms I may run into when switching from my laptop to the Beaglebone Black?

Thank you for your help,
Aaron

@AWRontheRISE Awesome welcome to the forum! I have no idea how much you know already so I'll give you the basic foundations you could use to accomplish this.

• First, find a way to link your MIDI controller to your computer and have Pd recognize it. If you need help with this, search the forum or google I'm sure you'll find plenty of help.

• Second, find a way to get MIDI data into your patch. Check out the help files for [notein] and [ctlin] objects.

• Third, find a way to load samples into your patch. I would take a look at a few of Dr. Raphael Hernadez's vids (which are also very good for just starting out with Pd):

• Last, find a way to link your MIDI data with your samples. For using velocity layers, check out this forum post: http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/9095/quick-question-do-you-need-to-allocate-voices-for-velocity-layers/2

If you need help with a specific step, post in the technical issues subforum under its own topic and I'm sure you'll get the help you need.

@rjp9 the link you posted seems broken, and I believe the problem is some mistake when you were copying and pasting it.

link fixed: