I just got a MPK mini midi controller and want to start controlling stuff in my pure data patches.

Is there any quick way to get around not having a [midiin] object in windows?

I have my MPKmini2 selected as my MIDI input device in Pd's settings.

But I get nothing using the [ctrlin] or [hidin] objects. What am I missing?

@sglandry Hello........
[ctlin] is good for control messages (maybe you have a spelling mistake), but you probably want to use [notein] for the "notes".......
David.