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i am new and i have been searching whether it is posible to use a laptop keyboard as midi directly.

it seems this is possible but i am not sure how this works

i have downloaded a working patch from an external source and i have found somebody's patch that uses midi keyboard directly without a midi device and pasted onto the original patch. however, i still cannot make sound. if someone could tell me the correct connections or any errors it owuld be great.

hello
i am new and i have been searching whether it is posible to use a laptop keyboard as midi directly.
it seems this is possible but i am not sure how this works
i have downloaded a working patch from an external source and i have found somebody's patch that uses midi keyboard directly without a midi device and pasted onto the original patch. however,  i still cannot make sound. if someone could tell me the correct connections or any errors it owuld be great.
thanks


question-on-using-max-with-computer-keyboard-as-midi

By "midi directly" do you mean to a plugin? Do you mean out of your computer to control a physical MIDI device?

Either way if you want to use the laptop/computer keyboard you need to use the [key] and possibly [keyup] objects, as well as some [makenote] and then [midiout] or [vst~] if you want to use a plugin. I must warn you that vst~ is a horrible unintuitive object with a not especially helpful help file.

i mean to use my computer keyboard instead of an actual midi/piano/controller as a midi input. ive seen people do it becuase they do not have the midi devices. just using the computer keyboard, as if its a midi device. i also did not quite understand th rest of all the stuff you said (i bought the program yesterday)

just search the forum before posting, f.e.:

https://cycling74.com/forums/pc-keyboard-to-midi-in-a-special-way

https://cycling74.com/forums/midi-keyboard

Question on using Max with computer keyboard as MIDI