Video tracking to xy MIDI control

Beginners
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Hello,

I am very very new to TD and am having a hard time wrapping my head around how to go about generating midi values for various visual inputs. I’d love to get to a place where i can use the tracking of an object in a space from a camera feed to control both midi notes (left to right) and velocity (top to bottom). Eventually I would want to add lighting cues, scale quantization and maybe even a z axis but I don’t want to get ahead of myself any more than I already am.

My previous experience is with DAWs and sound design but nothing of this variety so please bear this in mind in a response. I’m having a hard time even getting a VST to trigger from CHOP data in the first place! Also if there is other software that will work better please do recommend.

Thanks in advance for your response, this forum seems very friendly so any advice is welcome!

Julian

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the problem is that midi note is not a so simple concept (contrary to controler).

You have to trigger a note, with pitch, velocity, attack, sustain length etc.

With trigger chop you can construct that with x dimension linked to pitch and y linked to velocity. But you need some event trigging the note.

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Thanks Jacques! That makes a lot of sense, MIDI renaming is what seems to be another main obstacle but that’s its own issue.