Narrowing our ideas down

Here's a brief summary of what has been achieved since our last posting.

On the idea generation front the 100 ideas required was almost met (a more difficult task for our group being a man down on the rest of the other groups bar one) with about 40 ideas being generated each and being presented in a laser cut ring bound book. The next stage in the process was to cut down the total ideas to about 10 which was a fairly easy process as a lot of the ideas, we decided, were technically impossible, or at least improbable. The ideas which we agreed to take forward were mostly based on DJ software so this is the direction we took especially since DJing and music manipulation is something we are both quite passionate about. Based on the 10 ten ideas we have narrowed done to for closer analysis, we have decided it would be beneficial to start learning how to use Pure Data.

Pure Data (PD) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. So far it seems quite tricky but also extremely interesting. We have created some basic things on it such as a metronome with a BPM counter and also a very, VERY simple sequencer using an oscillator. Luckily there are lots of helpful tutorial videos available and strong pure data communities.