psykel

Hey there, I am putting together a special installation for some handicapped children in which they can hit several drums and trigger different lighting and visual effects. All of the light control I have finished, but I am having some issues with the visual mixing. I am new to Jitter (have used processing until now) but am really strong in max/msp. I took my effects from a couple of different examples and have tried some of the tutorial stuff, but my time to develop is running out, and I have not been successful. Basically I would like the effects to fade in and then out once they recieve the midi triggered bang. The "Rave" Effect in Grey is tied to the space bar, and alone basically does what I need (all three do obviously) The one in the Maroon colored panel is tied to the enter key, the video clip one in blue will use a slideshow movie of pictures and sounds from the room to control, and I would like them to fade in then out also, but this one is not tied to a key yet cause I'm not sure how to do it. I have provided my example below to the point were I am stuck. Any help would be so awesome as I really want to help these kids out..

PS, example is in max5, if it needs to be 4.6 for any of you to help let me know and I will get it from there.

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Help with mixing several visual effects together..