I am developing an input signal (instrument) to Midi patch based on a Charles Martins patch. The patch is based along the fiddle object in which I am converting a theremin style instrument's frequency into midi value before sending it into ableton live via midi yoke.

What I would like to be able to do is control the attack of the outputting midi signals so each note is sustained as a constant value rather then being repeatedly retriggered. At the moment when the midi signal is sent into Ableton to trigger a piano the notes are not being be held down and sustained only quickly retriggered.

I have attached my patch so far. First person to be able to complete the patch in accordance with the challenge wins a secret (and small) prize!

The gauntlet has been laid...

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Drones_of_the_light_.pd

to stop retriggering of same values enter a [change] object in the chain. this only lets a value through different from the previous...

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Ah thanks for that. But you still can not sustain the vst instrument within the other DAW (Ableton) as it only causes a one midi value bang. Any suggestions how to be able to sustain the notes within the external DAW application?

you are going to have to put into ms how long you want the sound to play there are several ways in which you could specify this

make a randomizer to change ms at random or given intervals
-not very stable and doesn't really lend itself well to audio to midi
or you could use something like the {env~} object to get the signal value and then have the loudness relate to the length
you could preset what midi notes (when received) were to send what length midi note like if you play an a it would select that note and the information would then be sent on that it needs

hope something here helps
and if you are up for it i would love to collaborate on said patch or at least throw some more ideas back and forth

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2450-collaboration-patch
here is something i had been working but have put off now