[linux-audio-dev] Project ideas?

[iain duncan]

> Well, since SOMEONE has to pipe up and say Pd can do it, might as well
> be me. :)
> 
> Pd with GEM is pretty cool as far as visualization goes.  Far better
> than anything I've ever seen or heard of actually, because you can
> visualize MIDI any way you want, which has waaay more potential than
> visualizing a boring old waveform (digital audio)

I'd say the opposite is true. Midi is lame for visualizing a continuous 
data stream, say for example mapping frequency content or amplitude to a 
continuous visualization. While midi is easy to work with with, 7-bit cc 
values are pretty coarse. The trick to making the waveform visualiztion 
interesting is to allow the user to break up the composite waveform into 
user defined frequency bins so you can ride the amplitude of specific 
frequency areas.

Iain