Nate Flanigan

I'm very new to Max so forgive me if I phrase these questions wrong. I'm currently working through the Kadenze course, but in tandem to that I've been playing around with the Beap modules since it uses a basic modualr synth vernacular that I'm familiar with. I've set up a little task for myself to make a patcher similar to the Roli 

object but for use with my linnstrument. I've opened up the 

to study what's happening inside the patch and while I understanding some of it I have a few very basic questions.

1) mpeparse: What does it output, not midi and not signal right? Is it just numbers?

help file there are unpack objects with the arguments 0 0 or i i what does the ii mean? What does 00 mean? I think it's the "output list elements argument" how do you know that? I see no mention of ii or 00 in the reference for unpack.

Hello, hello, 
I'm very new to Max so forgive me if I phrase these questions wrong. I'm currently working through the Kadenze course, but in tandem to that I've been playing around with the Beap modules since it uses a basic modualr synth vernacular that I'm familiar with. I've set up a little task for myself to make a patcher similar to the Roli bp.RISE Keyboard object but for use with my linnstrument.  I've opened up the bp.RISE Keyboard to study what's happening inside the patch and while I understanding some of it I have a few very basic questions.

2) In the bp.RISE Keyboard patch and mpeparse help file there are unpack objects with the arguments 0 0 or i i what does the ii mean? What does 00 mean? I think it's the "output list elements argument" how do you know that? I see no mention of ii or 00 in the reference for unpack.

Hello, hello, 
I'm very new to Max so forgive me if I phrase these questions wrong. I'm currently working through the Kadenze course, but in

trying-to-make-something-like-"roli-bp-rise-keyboard"-for-linnstrument

i i and 0 0 both defines the type of data at this position / for this list element.

pak / pack / list / unpack can not handle random lists, the type (and the list length) always must be known.

0 or i sets the elements type to integer number.

if you create a [pack 0 0] or [pack i i] they both will output "0 0" when you bang it, and the will not properly forward a list like "abc 5.7"

many objects allow to use i, f, l, s, and b to set the type of data allowed to receive. only math objects dont.

Thank you, but how do you know that? Or better put, where could I have learned that without asking? The examples in both the help and reference use symbols like i and 0 but there's I'm not seeing anything that says simply "for integers use 0 for symbols use X" etc.

Trying to make something like "Roli bp.RISE Keyboard" for Linnstrument