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Question: controlling bpatcher dials with MIDI

Hi, I am attempting to control the scale dial in bpatcher spat5.ellipse using MIDI but cannot figure out how. I can get MIDI into max and scale it but assigning it to specific dials is proving tricky. Any help would be fantastic, thanks!

Hi,

As I explained in another post, abstractions and bpatcher are very basic, and it’s up to you to adapt them to your needs.
The bpatcher spat5.ellipse is now somehow superseded by a recently added object : spat5.trajectories. (see help patcher for details).

Attached an example that should allow you to easily reconstruct something similar to spat5.ellipse, and tweak it for your MIDI controller.

PS : next time, please post your questions in the “Spat” category. Thanks.


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Ah my bad, apologies. Again, thanks for taking the time to respond. I’m learning a lot from your examples!