Bryony

I'm trying to create an arpeggiator, that does various things (minor/major arpeggios, going up/down) - I've managed to configure it to work when you press the keys on the screen, but now I'm trying to get it to work when using a MIDI keyboard.

My only problem is that I can't find something that will let it just do one of these arpeggios at a time - at the moment it plays all four of them at once.

I've looked at select and pcontrol, but none of these seem to do what I want, and I've had a browse on maxobjects.com to no avail. Can I do something like this with a umenu?

This is my current patch - it's the bit at the bottom that I'm focusing on.

selecting-a-subpatch

I see a couple of different possible solutions.

You should be able to use pcontrol and the [enable $1 1] message which should turn on/off all midi for the connected patch and all its subpatches.

You could also use the message [enable $1] for the different notein objects and only turn on the one you need.

Or you could use only one notein (probably better than 4) and use [gate 4] to route the information to the subpatch you want to...

I am sure there are other ways as well, but this should get you started.

I don't have a midi keyboard with me right now so I couldn't test this properly...

I couldn't get your patch working, but I think that may be the university's computers, because it looked like it should work.

Anyway, I got it working with a gate, thanks for the suggestion 

Selecting a subpatch?