Hello all,
I'm new to PD. Spent my weekend holed up learning as much as I could cram into my head in 48 hours. YouTube tutorials are a real blessing.

I have an idea for an installation for an art show coming up where audience members could send a text to a number, and PD translates the text into midi that triggers a synth to play back at them. Gimmicky, I know, and probably been done 1000 times, but it seems like a reasonably simple path to interactive sound (and maybe visual, eventually) art, something I'd like to explore.

I messed around with entry box this weekend and mangled it into sending a midi trigger out for each uppercase letter that I manually entered, based on my limited understanding of this post:

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-3601-ascii-binary

I have some questions. Is it possible to route an sms message into PD? Can I turn it into a list? Can I separate the list into spaced characters?

Also, I handpatched each letter to a specific number corresponding to the midi trigger. Is there a more elegant way to assign a number to a symbol, perhaps some sort of array or formula? I don't mind drawing the lines, it just looks unwieldy and messy.

Thanks for your help.

NB

Thanks! I will check that thread out to see if it answers my questions.

OK, here's another question. Can PD call a list of text from another document?

I would love to see examples of the setups people use for live performance and how you came up with them.

These are fantastic