@whale-av Thanks David, i feel like a really wally for not getting that myself. Thanks for all the help and patience. On a final note is it possible to run patches without the UI being open (headlessly), and how? Thanks

@whale-av yeah fair enough i don't think the thing about start up would work.
Yup, for python i would want the script to open the pd file and also the exe file for the drum software. I've tried doing it through command prompt (within python and not in python) but it keeps telling me that 'pd' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file, even if i try and run it from within the supposed pd source files location (which i believe is AppData/Local/Pd as i can't find anything else... but i'm probably wrong somewhere.

@whale-av sorry, should have said - windows 10, laptop

@whale-av thank you so much that seems to be doing the right thing!
i was also wondring if theres anyway to automate the patches running like on startup, or if it's possible to run the patch through python. Do you have any ideas about these?

@whale-av oh i see sorry
all midi data is being recieved from the drum kit into pd

@whale-av yup the only input being recieved from the loopbe1 in the drum software is the cc messages

@whale-av Thanks for this! it does successfully rewrite the cc values but no other midi info from my electric drum kit is going into the software. Im using loopbe1 as the input for the drum software / output for pd. Very new to pd so not really sure at all what's going on, please would you be able to help me diagnose the issue? thanks
here's a screenshot of the drum software midi input, no other drums are being registered

Hi, I've come across pure data as a way to change the cc value my hi hat is outputting, which being a cheap drum kit, is either 0 or 127. I want to change the 0 to be a number like 50 and then output that along with the rest of the midi data to a drum software. I have set up the virtual midi driver, but I can't for the life of me get the Pd code to work. Any help? The hi hat is cc 4. Thanks!