Hello, pretty early into pd but feel good for the most part.

I am making a pd patch with a number of simple animations, each one corresponding to a key. I use notein -> stripnote to isolate each key on the controller, and I have GEM animations going.

I am stumbling on how to implement the on/off action of each key to turn on/off the GEM animation. I do NOT want to have the animation retriggered each time I turn the press the key, which seems simpler - I have the animations running and the key simply makes the animation visible for that time being.

Where would I interject the notein info? I am guessing a toggle somewhere in the path, with notein turning it on thus letting information flow.

Hi and welcome to this forum,

To ignore some input for a certain duration (such as the length of your GEM animation), you can use something like this:

Now simply exchange that 1000 ms inside of [pipe] for the duration of your animation (or feed it algorithmically via the rightmost inlet of [pipe]) and then you will be able to let a key activate an animation if and only if the previous animation is finished.

Cheers,
Gilberto