Hi Gilberto,
This works perfectly - thanks again for your help!

-Sara

Hi everyone,
I am still new to PD, and I am having trouble creating a new message "write filenum.mid", which I need to automatically save a midi file after recording for 30 seconds. I need the file name to update using information from an external file each time the patch is run(so that old files are not overwritten). However, I am clearly going about this the wrong way since pack has been giving me many errors, including "inlet: expected 'float' but got 'symbol'" and "pack_symbol: wrong type." I have attached my current patch - any advice is highly appreciated!
-Sara
agitated.pd

Thank you so much for your help - it works perfectly now!

Hi Gilberto,
I am able to play midi files on my computer(I am running Windows 7). In fact, when I change the input of the cyclone/midiformat to a static message rather than the output of makenote, then I am able to record midi files that do produce sound. Thanks for your input!

I am fairly new to PD, and am working on an algorithmic composition patch as part of a project, and I am attempting to save the midi output to a midi file, using the seq object. I am currently able to write data to the seq object, but when I create the midi file, it plays for the length that I recorded but it does not produce any sound. I have attached the patch - any advice would be extremely appreciated!
Here is the patch: relaxed.pd