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New to this... but I'm trying to monitor breath inhale/exhale coming in via a mic - as the breath intensifies - goes over a certain number I'm sending a new value to processing 

I want to have four stages of breathing sent to processing

medium (past6) then send this value to processing

but the breath always goes down to 0 after each exhale which resets everything into the 'gentle' section even when the breath is escalting back up to a full on hard breath

My No.1 problem is creating something that allows the patch to know when a peak is reached rather than just passing on up through the numbers

My No 2 problem is they seem to need two bangs to trigger the processing bit

Any help will be really really appreciated

No. 3 my loadmess object is no good because the number needs to be sent out constantly to processing via OSC to make my drawing work

Here's what I've got so far - ridiculously bad

New to this... but I'm trying to monitor breath inhale/exhale  coming in via a mic - as the breath intensifies - goes over a certain number  I'm sending a new value to processing 
I want to have four stages of breathing sent to processing
gentle (past 3) 
medium (past6) then send this value to processing
hard 
& full on

I'm using the past object 
but the breath always  goes down to 0 after each exhale which resets everything into the 'gentle' section even  when the breath is escalting back up to a full on hard breath

My No.1 problem is creating something that allows the patch to know when a peak is reached rather than just passing on up through the numbers 

setting-parameters

This sounds like a fun project- I'm interested in working with Processing and Max, could you explain how you are working with the data sent from Max in Processing?

I added some things and took others away, hope it helps:

setting parameters?