Hi all, I'm trying to use/evaluate the usage of faust, pd and ChucK for a single application that is not directly related to music. I work as a developer for noise related applications (in particular we manage aircraft noise and in general noise pollution). I briefly explain what I would like to do. Let's say that I have a noise source that I would like to limit. Let's say that I measure the noise with a microphone in the vicinity of the noise source where i think the noise could disturb someone. The mic input is needed to compute some meaningfull indexes in a defined time interval, let's say 1 second or more, and then this value could be used as a reference to change the amplitude of the noise source if it exceeds the reference value. I make a couple of examples: 1. maybe I need to limit the noise production of a pub where there is live music so to reduce noise pollution outside the pub ... 2. maybe I gather with my friends to play some music in my house and I would like not to annoy my neighbours ... I've read the ChucK docs and found that I can have analyzer units but at the moment they are only built in (fft, ifft, ...) and that in the near future there will be the possibility to develop my own analyzer unit ... So my questions are: 1. Do you think that ChucK could be a profitable choice to have this job done? 2. Have you plans and timings for the user built analyzers unit support in ChucK? Thanks by now for any answer. Luca Paganotti
Hey, Luca. I work as a developer
for noise related applications (in particular we manage aircraft noise and in general noise pollution).
Very interesting!
1. Do you think that ChucK could be a profitable choice to have this job done?
Let me get this straight; you would like to analyse a signal for things like amplitude, RMS power and spectral distribution, possibly compensating for the sensitivity of hearing so you can determine whether you need sound-proofing and if so of what kind? If so then yes; I would say that could be done. One big issue for applications like yours, where there will be regulations, will be calibrating the whole system (mic, pre-amp, analysis, analysis display) but that is a issue that is quite universal in that field. I think ChucK would be a better choice for this than PD, I'm not sure how it would compare to Faust. Yours, Kas.
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