Are you using the hardware midi ports on the Circuit or all through
USB? The USB midi specs are slightly different when it comes to sysex
messages if I recall and maybe the Circuit is using that style while
Pd doesn't so the interface just sees the messages as bytes instead of
grouping it.
On Thu,
You can create your own fiducials. I've used
https://code.google.com/p/fidgen/ in the past. It will give you images
of the fiducials as well as the tree file you need to parse them. I've
got some video processing stuff I did that shows how I implemented it
in PD. You could also use my fiducials and