Analyse sound files and environment (micro, camera)

For the first analysis task, you might want to look at the MEAP
software:

    http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/meapsoft/

brad
http://music.columbia.edu/~brad

On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Rubini wrote:

>
> Dear Community,
>
> I'm a student and I'm going to realize a project with Max/MSP. The
> idea is a "Virtual DJ" that analyses sound files from a directory.
> Depending to their velocity (bpm) and the average frequency of the
> sound signal I want to classify them into an array.
> Second I want to analyse the environment in realtime. With the
> webcam and the microphone I want to find out the loudness and the
> average color value.
> Everytime when a song ends, the new one should be selected
> considering the information about songs in the array.
>
> I'm an newbie and don't know much about Max/MSP. Just some working
> with the standard objects.I have some programming experience with
> Java, PHP and a little bit of C.
>
> I would be really appreciated if one of you could help me out with
> some good tutorials to start with. And with ideas how to realise
> these analysing issues:
>
> - How to analyse sound files from one directory? BPM and average
> Freq. of sound signal.
> - How to analyse in real time microphone and webcam?
>
> thank you a lot,
> Michael
>