Running amiss a little here, I think.
Why do you need to convert the value to hex? Its going to be passed as a decimal number between 0 and 127, so you should send it to the Live.Object as decimal within this range. You also have to preface it with 240 (sysex start status) and append it with 247 (sysex end status).
Don't forget the tosymbol in between it and [call max_to_midi]. Python needs it to be a tuple, and that's how to make it so it can use the value. If the value being sent is outside of these criteria, it wont work. Otherwise, you have a good start. Remember, zl is your friend. In addition to trigger, you can use buddy, or you can reorder a list pretty easily using one of the zl functions. Thresh and Speedlim are other good objects to get rid of unwanted throughput if the resolution of the change is interpolated in the synth, or you just don't care about how smoothly the number changes over time.
JS is wonderful, but I would stay away from it if you can in the beginning. I use it extensively these days for accessing the api, and its especially useful for dealing with arrays and such, but I'd get the hang of message ordering and the basic list functions. Everything your trying to do can be done in a small max patcher with nothing but native max externals (except the M4L objects, that is).
For the record, though, inlet is a property of this, I think:
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function msg_int(blah)
{
if(inlet==0)
{
post(blah, "blah\n");
}
}
pid's contribution probably solved a few problems for you, but might've caused a few new ones as well. See if this gets you moving any faster:
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<pre><code>
----------begin_max5_patcher----------
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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>
Hope this helps. Took me forever to get the hang of this stuff. Fortunately, there are so many different ways to accomplish the same things
edit: I should mention, make sure you check where the "control surface x" dialog hooked up to the live.object is pointing to. I changed it when I was working on your patch, because that is where the Project X script is instantiated in my prefs, but if you only have one control surface installed, it should be "0", not "1". This can really bugger you if you forget about it. That's where a little js magick is nice (but not present, at the moment).
