Sounds like this is a school assignment, huh?

Have a look at [pictslider], but there isn't enough space in this thread to explain fft processing in max, I think :-/

I'd suggest going through the MSP tutorials, which do touch upon fft a bit.

Yeap, I have attached the part of the patch I am working on, if you have any advice that would be great.

I am using pictslider and have the fft filter eq, just need to suss the controlling of frequencies with the XY.

Thanks

aaah, so you're trying to control a multislider with an xy input. Got it.

The biggest issue in solving this is that you need to upsample your input, because you have 512 sliders, and only 128 steps of resolution on your midi input.

I solved this by doing extra draws with uzi. There may be more elegant solutions, but this seems to work - just don't do it with the pictslider itself, it doesn't output all its values, it would seem.

Try this, see if it works:

Hi,

here's a modification to Wetterberg's patch where the interpolation works with pictslider, too.

Cheers, Ádám

That's pretty cool, Ádám! I reckon that mode of interpolation is a bit too harsh for xy pad use, though - touch two places and it'll draw a direct line between them, which is a bit radical for some uses.

Yeah, it needs some improvement. The original idea was that, since pictslider is probably using qelems to trigger it's output, when you click-and-move the mouse inside the object, you won't get a continuous output. My approach works basically to overcome this problem. Probably a timer+gate combo or something similar should be inserted to turn off the 'direct line interpolation' effect. Cheers, Ádám

Thank you very much guys, going to try these now :-)

You guy are legends, all sorted.. Much appreciated :-)