I read:

I remember seeing some pd patches a while back that allow one to use the qwerty keyboard in PD for controlling. I have been away from the PD scene for a while, and wonder what externals/objects I need to use to to this.

hmmm none ?

just look at [key] [keyname] [keyup] for a second usb keyboard you might want to chek out hans' HID objects

HTH

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