[maxmsp] Re: Please Point me in the Right Direction

Take a look at makenote in the documentation, which will automatically provide note-offs after a specified time (in milliseconds) which you can vary if you want. Also look at flush, which will terminate all held notes when it's given a bang message. Flush must be inserted before makenote so it can track all notes being played, but it works on only one channel. I wrote an object called santaflush which is a multi-channel flush.

I also wrote a patcher for playing notes on the computer keyboard, but I know many other people have too. Email me at dudley2r at yahoo.com if interested.

D Wright
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