thanks for all the help guys. I'm gunna just keep working on my computer keyboard only setup. I'll work on the GEM part once the music side is finished!

hey guys! thanks for all the feedback!
@6ohtz i will certainly have a go at that!
@LiamG I was referring to ways to receive osc messages from my phone, not the oscillator object

thanks for the reply! Are there any other ways to get video manipulation with 64 bit osx and purr data?
as far the the knob thing goes, i actually gave up searching for the object and then blammo, someone posted about it in some forum.
I would like to attach my arduino (with knobs and soft pots) and a usb game controller to my sketch, this is why i was asking about [hid]. [comport] seems fine, though. [cursor] is more to play with and see what craziness can happen. I guess [osc] is also not supported yet?

So I just started with PD about two weeks ago and have been completely obsessed with making a live performance 'instrument'. Most things seem to work just as I think they will and are pretty straight-forward. I love PD.
However, I'm having a hard time finding new documents for learning. Most seem quite outdated. For example, it took me ages just to figure out how to get a [knob] to show up instead of always using sliders (now i know its [moonlib/knob], so happy to have finally figured that out!) So, there are a few libs/objects Im not able to use. I'm wondering if there are workarounds or maybe I should just wait for newer version to come out?
Red dotted-line box: [gem](the gem library doesn't load at all), [hid], [osc], [routeosc]
some legacy tcl command error: [cursor]
Is there somewhere that has updated info about all of this or can someone enlighten me?
Thanks in advance everyone! I've been sifting my way through this forum since I've started and it has helped so much!
Dan