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I'm really new to Max for Live - just wanted to know if anyone has any advice to offer about the following idea:

I'm a drummer, and I want to attach a drum trigger to my bass drum that will play a single note when struck - the particular note being determined by buttons on a MIDI foot controller (eg Keith McMillen's Softstep or similar). The note would be held until another button is selected. So every time the bass drum is struck, a note is played on my synthesizer, but no note is actually played by the foot controller.

If you have any ideas re: how I could set this up in M4L that would be great. I'm just an idiot drummer - my programming knowledge is very basic, but I am trying to learn.

There's an illustration attached that may help explain what I mean.

drum-trigger-midi-foot-controller-combination-to-control-midi-synth

The reality is this would be a much easier task to accomplish in plain MAx than m4l but here is how something like this may go:

A Midi track on which you would place your device(s) only allows for one distinct input source at a time so you would need to use/create 2 devices - device 1: looks for the MIDI trigger on the selcted MIDI input port for that track - some kind of midi note I assume? -and uses it to create a note event whose pitch value can be altered by a separate UI control (such as a dial) and tehn outputs the midi note to the synth on that track's midi output - this device can then be remotely controlled by -> device 2: located on a seperate track, which modifies and/or outputs the midi note value received from the footswitch bank as a control value which has been mapped to send its output to the pitch control dial as described in device 1. (something like the M4LCntrlMIDInote example from the max4 live examples might work as device 2 out of the box)

A Midi track on which you would place your device(s) only allows for one distinct input source at a time so you would need to use/create 2 devices  - device 1: looks for the MIDI trigger on the selcted MIDI input port for that track - some kind of midi note I assume? -and uses it to create a note event whose pitch value can be altered by a separate UI control (such as a dial) and tehn outputs the midi note to the synth on that track's midi output - this device can then be remotely controlled by -> device 2: located on a seperate track, which modifies and/or outputs the midi note value received from the footswitch bank as a control value  which has been mapped to send its output to the pitch control dial as described in device 1. (something like the M4LCntrlMIDInote example from the max4 live examples might work as device 2 out of the box)

Thanks Spectro - you are a genius. This all makes sense to me, though it would have taken me forever to figure out myself (even that the devices would need to be on separate tracks). I'll give this a shot and let you know how I go.

Drum trigger & midi foot controller combination to control midi synth?