Hey guys I need a bit of help writing a patch

all I really need is an object which turns text into some sort of message.

What I'm attempting is letters triggering a particular note or frequency

any help would be appreciated

where do you want the text to come from?

for text files, try [textfile]

for key presses, try [key]

for symbol to something else conversion, try [select]

if you mean that you want to take written text (like a poem or something) and convert it into individual letters,

you should first load the text into pd with textfile,

and then break it into letters with something like [symbol2list]. i think you have to send a [symbol( message into the right inlet of [symbol2list] so that each letter will come out as a separate part of the list.

then you need a way to play a list so that each individual symbol gets output at the desired tempo, and i can't think exactly how you do that right now, but you can probably find something if you look in the [list-abs] folder.

then you can convert letters into frequencies by using [sel a b c d e f g......x y z] and connecting the outlets of the select object into desired frequencies.

thats a cool idea

never thought of that

Hey hardoff thanks for the input

the symbol2list object is perfect thanks for that

now the only obstacle is what you said about the tempo thing
if there was a way to read the text files according to tempo or to delay the letters according to time that would be awesome

because withe the sybol2list object is limited to the amount of unpack instances i have

also thanks to ClaudiusMaximus for your input

yeah it's definitely possible and not TOO tricky to set up a slow-dripping list. you could either do as i suggested and have a look in [list-abs], and there should be something like [list_drip] that could be modified with a [delay] object to drip slowly. or else you could build your own drip quite easily too, using the following objects:

, , [delay] ...etc

unfortunately i dont know what or where the list-abs folder is i tried searching for it but didn't come up with anything

Depends on your os.

If you are running osx, you can find the lis-abs in:
/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/extra/list-abs

"extra" is the folder where all your (pd-ext) abstractions and externals are.

Hey thanks again for the input guys now its a matter of putting it together once i do ill post it here so you can see how it's turned out