Hello all,

First time posting here and looking forward to being a positive addition to this forum.

I'm a newbie regarding Linux and was looking to find a VJ beat detection software program for film/video that could sync to the rhythms of a song (bass drum, guitar, hi-hats, etc) to trigger different images.

I only found out recently about Pure Data, Gemq and Bonk but am not quite sure if they offer this feature or if I need to be a super duper software engineer to put this all together.

I'm currently using Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid on a little Aspire netbook.

Thanks in advance and to all the software developers who come up with the cool software for us starving artists.
VJCJ

it might first be wise to learn about the basics of pure data. the patch you describe would not be very complicated to make. i would check out some youtube tutorials (these are pretty good:

but start with the basics). in addition, you will find very helpful materials within pd. go to help->pure data->examples->gem-> there are many helpful patches there.

The FLOSS manual is also a good place to start:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/puredata