There are some music analysis objects in Maxlib. Open the maxlib-help.pd file that comes with it for an overview of the music analysis objects. Maybe best if you install PD Extended if you're new to this.
I think most of the Maxlib objects go the other way around from what you describe... they analyze MIDI data and give chord names, etc. But have a look anyways.
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Sam Clayton wrote:
Is there an external or abstraction that can take a symbol from a message such as "Ab4" and output a frequency message, such as "207.65234879"? It would be something like mtof, but for text rather than midi note numbers.
Are there any externals dealing with turning text representations of chords such as "Cma7" (or some other format) and sending the appropriate frequencies to a collection of oscillators?
If not, could someone point me in the right direction to write an abstraction or external to do this?
I'm fairly new to Pd and confused by the documentation.
Thanks, Sam