Re: [linux-audio-dev] Project ideas?

No, you're assuming this is a two-track only input. Why would the app be limited to two audio tracks only at once? What I would want to play with is something that allows: a) multi-track in, so that the music could be fed in with different instruments per track for say visuals coming off a live multi-track setup. b) filtering of tracks to seperate an individual track into more tracks for analysis. ie if you had only a two track input you could use user-controlled band pass filters to seperate the track into frequency bins, allowing you to zero in on say the underlying bass pulse, or underlying high end pulse. These could of course work side by side with midi too, but I would think the data available from audio analysis would be much richer and at a finer resolution. One could certainly do the above with either csound or PD ( among others I'm sure! ). The problem with the midi CC's is low resolution in both bit depth and time ( midi chokes at a pretty low message throughput ) and that of course you have to write these cc movements yourself to begin with. If that was the plan, I think it would be far preferable to just use Csound krate variables and make some sort of plugin/opcode to send the krate variables to whatever visualization engine one wanted. Fortunately this will actually be practical with all the new developments in Csound 5. Hooray to the csound developers! = ) Hope that makes some kind of sense, it's late here. ; ) Iain Iain