Use your MIDI controller as your computer keyboard

Casper Leerink's icon

Hi guys,

I am trying to make a patch that receives MIDI input from a MIDI keyboard and translates it into keystrokes.
So for example I can play the midi controller and it will type a text in a text editor or message box in max or whatever (as long as you can see it)

I tried to use the itoa object (notein to itoa with some mapping you prefer) but then I dont know how to make those single messages into a text (also for example delete text if the delete/backspace button is pressed).

Thanks in advance, Casper

prepete's icon

Hi there,
take a look at aka.keyboard (http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/max/)...
greetings!
Peter

Casper Leerink's icon

Thanks a lot! that was exactly what i needed!
now I only need to map the right piano keys to the right keyboard keys and i am done! :)

Peter Ostry's icon

How do you get the aka.objects running?

I removed mine (along with other externals) a while ago, now tried again but get only long error messages for every object I load. My Externals are in a folder and it is in the search path. The message tells about missing image, no structure in wrapper etc.

Mac OSX 10.11.5
Max 7.2.3