Faster(more frequently) = Louder . . . ?

[Bigbee]

I'm making an insect instrument. I want to replicate the process of an insect rubbing its legs together (or rubbing its head on its abdomen or rubbing one leg against another). Ideally, I'd like to use a slider or potentiometer to do this.

The instrument would behave like this: move the slider up and down slowly and a sound begins to resonate, move it faster and it resonates louder or the sound changes depending upon how fast the slider is moved up and down. Any ideas?

The wall I'm running into in my first attempts concerns the linear scaling of a slider/knob. Is there a way for a controller to tell Ableton: Faster (more frequently) = Louder? Perhaps there is a Max device that takes note of how often a value is reached?

Thanks!

[Machinate]

Here's one working implementation, with some smoothing thrown in for good measure. It can be tweaked in a number of ways, depending on what you need. One thing that would be fun is to add an [accum] object to this, so that it can, well, accumulate even more.

<pre><code>
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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------
</code></pre>

[Bigbee]

Hi Machinate. Thanks very much. I'm not sure how to use this code. I'm very new to Max. Is there a script editor that I can access? Really appreciate the help!

[Machinate]

just select it and paste it into Max