musicalfruit

Hello all, I'm extremely new to Max so please bear with me.

I just found the keyMidi patch in the 'Extras' and it does exactly what I need. However, I need to adapt it slightly so that the keyboard keys trigger an animation in Processing. Is there any way to open keyMidi as a patcher so objects can be added?

I've downloaded the MaxLink library so that Processing and Max can be linked, but just don't know where to go from here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and I hope that made sense...

using-keymidi-patch

yes.. just need to press command and then click the patch with your mouse the click the two toggles with command pressed and you will have something similar to this

then youu can make it with most of the windows of options and extra stuff in MaxMSP

i put you and indexed file with the content of keymidi anyway

            "box" :             {

                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                "text" : "p keys",

                "ignoreclick" : 0,

                "outlettype" : [ "bang", "bang", "", "" ],

                "fontface" : 0,

                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                "hidden" : 0,

                "textcolor" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 ],

                "presentation_rect" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 ],

                "numinlets" : 0,

                "id" : "obj-37",

                "fontname" : "Arial",

                "bgcolor" : [ 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 ],

                "background" : 0,

                "color" : [ 0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 1.0 ],

                "numoutlets" : 4,

                "patching_rect" : [ 454.0, 355.0, 100.0, 20.0 ],

                "presentation" : 0,

                "patcher" :                 {

                    "fileversion" : 1,

                    "rect" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 640.0, 480.0 ],

                    "bglocked" : 0,

                    "defrect" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 640.0, 480.0 ],

                    "openrect" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 ],

                    "openinpresentation" : 0,

                    "default_fontsize" : 12.0,

                    "default_fontface" : 0,

                    "default_fontname" : "Arial",

                    "gridonopen" : 0,

                    "gridsize" : [ 15.0, 15.0 ],

                    "gridsnaponopen" : 0,

                    "toolbarvisible" : 1,

                    "boxanimatetime" : 200,

                    "imprint" : 0,

                    "boxes" : [                         {

                            "box" :                             {

                                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                                "text" : "pack",

                                "outlettype" : [ "" ],

                                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                                "numinlets" : 2,

                                "id" : "obj-20",

                                "fontname" : "Arial",

                                "numoutlets" : 1,

                                "patching_rect" : [ 181.0, 271.0, 36.0, 20.0 ]

                            }

,                         {

                                "text" : "prepend set",

                                "numinlets" : 1,

                                "id" : "obj-4",

                                "patching_rect" : [ 220.0, 272.0, 74.0, 20.0 ]

                                "text" : "sel 15 16 -1",

                                "outlettype" : [ "bang", "bang", "bang", "" ],

                                "id" : "obj-16",

                                "numoutlets" : 4,

                                "patching_rect" : [ 155.0, 165.0, 84.0, 20.0 ]

                                "text" : "p displayKeys",

                                "id" : "obj-88",

                                "numoutlets" : 0,

                                "patching_rect" : [ 50.0, 219.0, 100.0, 20.0 ],

                                "patcher" :                                 {

                                    "fileversion" : 1,

                                    "rect" : [ 433.0, 369.0, 383.0, 300.0 ],

                                    "bglocked" : 0,

                                    "defrect" : [ 433.0, 369.0, 383.0, 300.0 ],

                                    "openrect" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 ],

                                    "openinpresentation" : 0,

                                    "default_fontsize" : 12.0,

                                    "default_fontface" : 0,

                                    "default_fontname" : "Arial",

                                    "gridonopen" : 0,

                                    "gridsize" : [ 15.0, 15.0 ],

                                    "gridsnaponopen" : 0,

                                    "toolbarvisible" : 1,

                                    "boxanimatetime" : 200,

                                    "imprint" : 0,

                                    "boxes" : [                                         {

                                            "box" :                                             {

                                                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                                                "text" : "p toLower",

                                                "outlettype" : [ "int" ],

                                                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                                                "numinlets" : 1,

                                                "id" : "obj-15",

                                                "fontname" : "Arial",

                                                "numoutlets" : 1,

                                                "patching_rect" : [ 55.0, 72.0, 63.0, 20.0 ],

                                                "patcher" :                                                 {

                                                    "fileversion" : 1,

                                                    "rect" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 640.0, 480.0 ],

                                                    "bglocked" : 0,

                                                    "defrect" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 640.0, 480.0 ],

                                                    "openrect" : [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 ],

                                                    "openinpresentation" : 0,

                                                    "default_fontsize" : 12.0,

                                                    "default_fontface" : 0,

                                                    "default_fontname" : "Arial",

                                                    "gridonopen" : 0,

                                                    "gridsize" : [ 15.0, 15.0 ],

                                                        }

,                                                         {

                                                            "box" :                                                             {

                                                                "maxclass" : "newobj",

                                                                "text" : "split 65 96",

                                                                "outlettype" : [ "int", "int" ],

                                                                "fontsize" : 12.0,

                                                                "numinlets" : 3,

                                                                "id" : "obj-7",

                                                                "fontname" : "Arial",

                                                                "numoutlets" : 2,

                                                                "patching_rect" : [ 50.0, 100.0, 65.0, 20.0 ]

                                                            }

                                                                "maxclass" : "inlet",

                                                                "outlettype" : [ "int" ],

                                                                "numinlets" : 0,

                                                                "id" : "obj-12",

                                                                "numoutlets" : 1,

                                                                "patching_rect" : [ 55.0, 40.0, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                                                "comment" : ""

                                                                "maxclass" : "outlet",

                                                                "numinlets" : 1,

                                                                "id" : "obj-13",

                                                                "numoutlets" : 0,

                                                                "patching_rect" : [ 50.0, 205.0, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                                    "lines" : [                                                         {

                                                            "patchline" :                                                             {

                                                                "source" : [ "obj-7", 1 ],

                                                                "destination" : [ "obj-13", 0 ],

                                                                "hidden" : 0,

                                                                "midpoints" : [ ]

                                                                "source" : [ "obj-9", 0 ],

                                                                "source" : [ "obj-12", 0 ],

                                                                "destination" : [ "obj-7", 0 ],

                                                                "source" : [ "obj-7", 0 ],

                                                                "destination" : [ "obj-9", 0 ],

                                                }

                                                "saved_object_attributes" :                                                 {

                                                    "fontface" : 0,

                                                    "fontsize" : 12.0,

                                                    "fontname" : "Arial",

                                                    "globalpatchername" : ""

                                            }

,                                         {

                                                "text" : "if $i2 != -1 then $i1",

                                                "outlettype" : [ "" ],

                                                "numinlets" : 2,

                                                "id" : "obj-1",

                                                "patching_rect" : [ 55.0, 100.0, 110.0, 20.0 ]

                                                "text" : "itoa",

                                                "numinlets" : 3,

                                                "id" : "obj-51",

                                                "patching_rect" : [ 55.0, 136.0, 46.0, 20.0 ]

                                                "text" : "prepend text",

                                                "id" : "obj-49",

                                                "patching_rect" : [ 55.0, 169.0, 77.0, 20.0 ]

                                                "text" : "sprintf send parent:parent::key[%i]",

                                                "id" : "obj-48",

                                                "patching_rect" : [ 175.0, 169.0, 193.0, 20.0 ]

                                                "text" : "pattrforward",

                                                "id" : "obj-46",

                                                "patching_rect" : [ 55.0, 204.0, 75.0, 20.0 ]

                                                "maxclass" : "inlet",

                                                "numinlets" : 0,

                                                "id" : "obj-86",

                                                "patching_rect" : [ 55.0, 40.0, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                                "comment" : ""

                                                "id" : "obj-87",

                                                "patching_rect" : [ 175.0, 40.0, 25.0, 25.0 ],

                                    "lines" : [                                         {

                                            "patchline" :                                             {

                                                "source" : [ "obj-15", 0 ],

                                                "destination" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],

                                                "hidden" : 0,

                                                "midpoints" : [ ]

                                                "source" : [ "obj-86", 0 ],

                                                "destination" : [ "obj-15", 0 ],

                                                "source" : [ "obj-51", 0 ],

                                                "destination" : [ "obj-49", 0 ],

                                                "source" : [ "obj-49", 0 ],

                                                "destination" : [ "obj-46", 0 ],

                                                "source" : [ "obj-87", 0 ],

                                                "destination" : [ "obj-1", 1 ],

                                                "source" : [ "obj-1", 0 ],

                                                "destination" : [ "obj-51", 0 ],

                                                "destination" : [ "obj-48", 0 ],

                                                "source" : [ "obj-48", 0 ],

                                }

                                "saved_object_attributes" :                                 {

Using keyMidi patch