Hello fellow Pure Data enthusiasts,

I'm working on a music project where I'm sending MIDI data to Ableton using patches that include note pitch, velocity, and duration. I want to add a new feature to my setup: an external button, like D or F, that I can bang to change the value of a message box (let's call it 'C').

To give you a clearer picture, let's say D corresponds to the value 63 and F corresponds to the value 65. When I press either D or F, I want the value in the 'C' message box to change accordingly. For instance, if 'C' was previously set to 60, pressing D should keep it at 63, and pressing F should change it to 65.

This functionality would allow me to create different modes and scales on-the-fly and continue jamming seamlessly. Could you please guide me on how to achieve this? Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your assistance!

Best regards,
Dr. Gazzy

turns out the whole "momentary toggle button" doesn't exist as a UI in PD - in [else] there's [button] - but one day I woke up and realized [key], [keyup] can be used to make momentary toggles (as in it reports 1 until it's let go then reports 0) - it works great using keyboard as an input, an overlooked way to get live input into PD

it gets kind of messy with things like note priority or other multiple toggle logic - this one is last keyDown to be easy

you can delete the [outlet] messages - was from an abstraction/subpatch simpleKeyButtons.pd

To change the contents of a message box, use the 'set' message

@gazzyjuruj

Hey guys thanks for the quick answer, yes right after i posted this i did some more digging my mind was clogged up couldn't even think of set message. that worked like charm!

but thanks for the key recommendation too, its mapable as well and just gives me more ideas.

Thanks and have a nice day.