It was my birthday recently - and given the present circumstances, my girlfriend had the neat idea of buying me this device: https://shop.playtronica.com/touchme
It relies upon conductivity via touch and sends out midi notes of different values depending upon the scale of that touch conductivity. More contact means higher pitched notes.
When I received it at my house, there were no instructions or notes (and i can’t see my girlfriend due to the virus 
), so I just plugged it into my computer and searched for it online. Playing with it, and looking at the price my girlfriend must have paid - I was a bit disappointed because it’s not really a musically useful device as it is and it’s very expensive for a 10 minute novelty.
The beautiful idea behind the product and the gift idea is that touch is expressive, so it seems to me like a missed opportunity to translate that data into something binary and steppy like note messages.
I started looking for maxforlive devices which could translate the incoming midi note data to mappable CC messages for parameters like cutoff, decay etc - the best of which I found so far was ‘KEYPITCHER’.
I’ve had some luck with this! Used it to control the filter cutoff of a maxforlive Subharmonicon emulation:
and here it’s mapped to the decay of a hihat and snare sample in a drum kit:
So i’m quite pleased now, but still feel like it could be better.
*The CC values still jump in a fairly steppy way - does anyone know a device which could be used to smooth/glide between incoming CC values?
*The TOUCH ME device seems to output 2 octaves of notes, but I haven’t figured out a way to properly scale/attenuate the note output or CC output to with precision.
Obviously the best answer to all of this would be to just write a device myself in max, but i only have limited experience in PD and don’t have a full max license. Anybody have any devices in their arsenal which could be useful here? Thanks in advance 
