PeteDerby

Can you help ? from a Kinect Sensor into a max patch ( colour tracking) giving data values of 0 to 1 ,(have done this bit) but then to convert it into a usable way of transmitting single midi notes, to then fire Qlab audio/video cues, this is the last part of the chain before leaving the Max patch but I just don't know how to achieve it !

very new to Max and could do with some help.

Can you help ?    from a Kinect Sensor into a max patch ( colour tracking) giving data values of 0 to 1 ,(have done this bit) but then to convert it into a usable way of transmitting single midi notes, to then fire Qlab audio/video cues, this is the last part of the chain before leaving the Max patch but I just don't know how to achieve it !

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As you need to map the x y values to different events (ie midi notes) - there's really quite a lot of choices to be made here regarding how to go about it. To start with it's probably easier to work with a limited set of video 'regions' (thereby avoiding the rapid fire onslaught of events triggered by slight motions and even signal jitter).

The example here is extra simple and works on a single axis only - but should serve to give you some idea of how to progress... With either the x or y input, you should get 3 notes depending on what part of the range the active element is tracked in.

By the way, you're not a VCA graduate by any chance are you?

As you need to map the x y values to different events (ie midi notes) - there's really quite a lot of choices to be made here regarding how to go about it. To start with it's probably easier to work with a  limited set of video 'regions' (thereby avoiding the rapid fire onslaught of events triggered by slight motions and even signal jitter). 

The example here is extra simple and works on a single axis only - but should serve to give you some idea of how to progress... With either the x or y input, you should get 3 notes depending on what part of the range the active element is tracked in. 

thanks to both replys ...... I'm getting a note out now. just need a bit more time to get individual midi note for XY positions.

From Derby University in the UK by the way.

thanks to both replys ...... I'm getting a note out now.   just need a bit more time to get individual midi note for XY positions.

From Derby University in the UK by the way.


All Further help is welcome ... I am getting multiple midi notes out now ... But ..... I am trying to get the the kinect to give an actors position on stage .. so the X Y positions are paramount .... and at a pre-determined value of X & Y it fires a midi note that can be set as a grid around a stage area (ten positions maybe), a massive thanks to the last replys .. but welcome more

Can you help ? Max Jitter Colour Tracking XY Data into Midi Data ?