Hi, I&#39;m trying to make an instrument using a drum (similar to steel drums), solenoid actuators, arduino, pure data, and an akai MPD 18 drum pad.  The drum pad has 16 pads and there will be 16 actuators.  I&#39;m stuck in the pure data part and seeking some help from the list.  It seems to me that if I could filter the 16 note values from the midi drum in PD, that it wouldn&#39;t be that difficult to route each value to a pin on an arduino board.  I&#39;ll be using 8 outputs on two separate boards.  The only relevant code besides pduino I&#39;ve seen is a midi note filter (I couldn&#39;t make it useful), and some Pd patches on an MIT syllabus.  The MIT patches were not downloadable, they may have used Maxforlive or something.<br>
<br>Thanks for any help,<br>Drake<br>