Johnny Rory

I'm quite new to Max, and have spent a couple of weeks going through the tutorials and reference material, so I'm fairly familiar with the basic objects, as well as how the interact with each other.

I was wandering however if any of you could help me with a project I'm trying to get going. I'm trying to create a patch that will teach people how to play simple nursery rhymes, via a MIDI keyboard.

Basically I imagine I'd have to store the MIDI values for the melody's, and compare them to the incoming MIDI values played on the keyboard. I'm having trouble however implementing this in practice. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

nursery-rhyme-teacher

Also, I forgot to add, the timing of the notes is not an issue at this stage, just as long as the sequence of the notes is correct.

you might look at the [detonate] object, and the "follow" message to it. I think this lets one play along and it does the comparison for you, so it won't play unless the right pitch is hit (timing not relevant). Though I might be wrong about its function.

You can also store the pitch values in a simple list and try the [zl] objects to compare. [zl nth] is a good place to start, it would let you compare each note based on its position in the list.

Thanks very much, I'll give that a try just now.

Hey, that sounds like an interesting idea!

I had a quick go at a slightly different approach using counter and coll...

Nursery Rhyme Teacher