@laura_owen24 Hello again Laura.
I have made your patch again using abstractions. The [laura_chord] objects are all identical and have arguments that tell them their trigger number and their chord note outputs.

@rjp9 will be more likely to be able to tell you how to transpose, but as your patch is at the moment it will become even more messy very quickly, and harder to follow and modify.

Obviously if you cannot understand how I have changed your patch then you should not use mine, as you might have to explain it to your tutor. But if you can understand it then you have made the next big leap in patching.
You will need to add in all of your chords as before but it will be much quicker than before, and there are far less cords...........

laura_piano.zip

David.

@laura_owen24 Here's an idea: chordhelp3.pd You will have to look inside the abstractions to make some changes

@whale-av said:

Your next task (if you are "hooked" on Pd) will be to learn about abstractions. Your patch could have been easier to construct, and a lot tidier, but that is for the future.

+1 Abstractions and subpatches make understanding and fixing patches a heck of a lot easier!

@whale-av I so understand it I have just read through a tutorial on building a synth and this was a part of it, this is much better and there are better marks for making the patch as user friendly as possible so that's very helpful thank you!

@rjp9 I know haha, I feel like I have made huge leaps since I started using pd and I see it now. It's just so baffling from the start. Thank you for all of your help. I learnt to use MAX initially in class and just about understood it and I basically just copied but this time I wanted to really have grasp on it, this forum is awesome!

@laura_owen24 Cool I am glad we were able to help! Please let us know if you need us to explain any parts of the patches we uploaded. I certainly don't know as much about pd and programming in general as others, but I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we are all about explaining what we can and fostering a greater understanding of pd. Gets off soapbox

@rjp9 Thank you, I passed my assignment! Yay! I like pure data, next year in uni I will have to use this programme for some really big assignments so I'm going to keep practising. I really appreciate your patience and your time.

Thank you again!