Hi guys,

My name is Ben Cole and I just downloaded puredata to use with a University project. I have viewed some beginner tutorials and the documentation, so I am beginning to understand how it works, but I still have some nooby questions.

Basically, I need to use puredata to analyze sound input from a microphone, and then send out the data over a port using the OSC protocol which the main program I am using, Virtools, can read. In PD, I need to analyze the best "beat per minute", frequency, and volume of the incoming audio - along with anything else I can figure out how to do.

I have no idea how to do any of this. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction as far as what objects to use (adc~?) to input the live audio, break it down into the variables I need, and then send those out as OSC data.

ANY tips are appreciated.

Thanks,

Ben

Hey guys - Thank you so much for your quick responses and valuable info!

I'll be trying them out in the next day or two and will post my findings.

As far as sending the data out as OSC, do I simply need to make an object [dumpOSC xxxx] (x's being the UDP port number) that has a variable feeding into it? I assume there is a bit more to it than that, but from what I understand I will be sending out a different piece of OSC data over a different port for each variable I will be using in virtools (IE - freq, bbm, amplitude). So far this link is all I really have relating to PD and OSC (http://www.aaronfryklund.com/wp/?p=45).

-Ben