Hmm maybe I need to give up on Processing/puredatap5 and move over to Java or something else. It seems pretty much unsupported and not updated for a long time.

Is it possible? I have downloaded the expr dll file but I don't know how to get it to work with libpd.
Very new to libpd and any other kind of coding apart from PD.
I am using Processing which is more or less like Java.

I have a PD synth that I play with an external MIDI keyboard. I want to use libpd so I can make a nicer interface.
My problem is getting libpd to recognise any incoming MIDI. I've read conflicting stuff around the net like "libpd doesn't support MIDI" or "libpd supports only MIDIIN" etc.
I don't need to send MIDI from libpd to anywhere else, just need it to notice incoming MIDI. Can anyone help?
I have used a message of the form [;pd midi-dialog .........[ to make sure the correct MIDI interface is set up. It works in regular PD but not in libpd.
Specifically I am using puredatap5, the libpd library for Processing.

Thanks again!

I don't want to see the GUI Just want the patch to run.....

Once I open PD then the command line disappears.

You are saying I can use -lib to open a patch? Will try it.

After much confusion I found a helpful old thread with this info to put in to the Terminal:

"/Applications/PureData/Pd.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd -nogui"

But once I've opened PD without the GUI, how do I open my patch? If I just call my patch from the command line then I can't get it to open without the GUI.

"Array get" was what I needed, thanks

Is there a simple way to send a whole array via osc or do I have to send each element of the array one after the other?

I guess I'll try it. Intuitively I guess it will use a lot of CPU but maybe it won't!