I have a patch where I take polyphonic MIDI input (with [poly]) and I change it into different squares of different colours (in fact, I have 8 voices maximum with [poly], so 8 squares. The colours are 12, like the notes of a chromatic scale). The order MIDI note-colour should be precise. I did an abstraction for the voice (so that I have one abstraction and I use it 8 time) and inside the abstraction I have another one for selecting the colour (with the object [select]). But there's a problem! In fact, the patch shows the colours randomly! Where's the mistake?

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

Hello,
I'm actually wondering how to open a patch. I've tried the object [openpatch], but it doesn't work. In the help patches of pd I can see that this object accept messages, but in fact when I try to send a message with the name of the patch to open, nothing happens.
I've also tried with the internal message "open namefile.pd" but it's the same thing. I can guess I have to add something about the path where the patches are saved, but I can't understand what exactly.
Any advise? I can tell you that I have put the patches I want to open this way on the desktop.

Good morning everybody,
I have different patches that make the same thing, except for some details. These details should be decided by an initial control (for example, in C, it would be "if"). Any ideas to do something like that in pd???

Thank you

Good evening,
I have already made a patch that takes single midi notes and change them into coloured squares. Now my teacher asked me to detect chords, too. I know in maxlib there is hte object chord that does this, but my wish would be to have chords and melody at the same time. In a simple, intuitive way: I have a midi keyboard and the right hand plays one note (the melody) while the left one plays 3 or 4 notes (the chords). Is it possible to do something like that? I've tried using "chord", but I don't think it works very well.

Thank you

Hello everyone!
I'm an italian girl who's going to be graduated. In fact I just need to build a project in pd to finish my studies. And this is the problem: I'm not able at all. Even if I studied the syntax of this language, the way to build "serious" things with it is out of reach for me.
I need to build a patch for this proposal: loading videos from the webcam of a mobile or an i-pad and change them into music. The connection between music and images should be strong (people should understand there's a connection without reading it in the description).
I really don't know how to start and I'm quite desperate. in my brain pd is just an ensemble of squares and lines, if you know what i mean.
Can anyone help me? Maybe just build a basical patch on wich i can work later. Or maybe advises.

I thank everyone

Hi, I'm quite new of pd.
I did a project where I render squares of different colors from midi notes. I mean: when I play a DO it renders a blue square, when I play a RE it renders a red square and so on.
Now my question is: if I would like to render different geos from different notes? For example, if I play a DO it renders a square but if I play a RE it renders a circle. Is this possible with gem?? Does gem have the power of doing it?

Excuse-me for my english, but I'm italian

I thank you all, after looking at the patch a bit of time, I saw that the mistake was -in fact- about [route]. I didn't understand very well the behaviour of this object, so I connected the [mod 12] to the velocity and not to the pitch. Now that I changed this it works much better!!!

Thank you by heart

the abstraction, too [2]
And oh! I have 3 other patches that should work the same way, changing the couples note-colour.

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

the abstraction, too

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

thank you!

ok, now I have a simple question: my patches work perfectly on my personal computer. But when I show them to my teacher, I have to put them on my usb key. Does the [open] message work the same?

I simply love you!!! I did precisely what you wrote and now it finally works!!! Thank you very very very much!!!! <3<3<3

how? I thought [expr] was the short way for expression. I tried with [opa] object, but it doesn't work.

this is the latest version, from yesterday afternoon. It works perfectly and this is what they ask me to do... for now.

I thank everybody for helping me, I think we will "meet" again very soon.

Kisses

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/progetto_midi3.pd

Ok! that's it! I discovered today that the problem with Gem was about rendering. But I'm still asking myself how to finish it, for example how to make different gemhead in the same time.

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

how can i load it?

Hi! Thank you for the answer.
Yesterday I talked with my teacher -heart to heart- and he said me to start from little thing. I'm actually trying to change audio in video. I have a MIDI keyboard and I have to change the notes into squares of different colours. I'm already working at it and I can say the first part of the patch looks quite perfect (let me be proud of it!). The problem is when I start to use gem objects. It doesn't render anything. there's just the gemwin, always black (even if I send it a message "color 1 1 1"). I'm starting to think that it's a problem of "entire" gem and not of my patch. Even the tutorials don't work!!!