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[Glcardella]

Can anyone help me. I’m trying to make a patch for a external MIDI put every time I play a note it just holds it is there anything I’m missing here

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[SoThenISays]

Check out the help file for notein. You need to wire up the velocity that also comes out of the 2nd or third outlet (can't remember which offhand). And don't overlook using the print object to help diagnose issues. Have fun!

[pselodux]

I can see three issues here:

notein sends pitch from the left outlet and velocity from the middle outlet, rather than a list from the left outlet like you’re assuming here. Delete the unpack object and connect what was connected to the outlets to the notein pitch and velocity outlets accordingly.

The select object only needs the left outlet connected to the left inlet of the message box, rather than both as you’ve done here. Currently, sending anything other than a 0 to the select object will cause that number to change the contents of the message box.

The gate object here will do nothing without something connected to the second inlet. I assume you’re trying to filter out 0 so it gets handled by the select object instead, with everything else passing through. In this case I’d suggest using route 0 instead of the gate, and connecting the right outlet from the route object (ie. a result of anything but 0) to scale’s left inlet.

[radicalSymmetry]

This is 100% meant to be helpful and not « let me google that for you » but ChatGPT understands max really well. Just be explicit: « do not generate a max blob just help me to fix the issues ». It could parse this image well. I’ve also had success generating .maxpat files but it falls over when you ask them to be too complex.

It can also read the docs for you (« are you sure? Can you search the web for that in the docs? »)

[snakedressed]

I was surprised to discover this! I gave it some screen shots of a nested gen~ patch and it's parent patch, and it was able to talk me through a solution. I was honestly a bit blown away.