8 Jun
2004
8 Jun
'04
9:54 p.m.
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