Oh hey online community. How's it going? I've used Processing in the past for a few small projects here and there but I'm about to start my first big (for my standards) project and figure this forum would be the best place to bounce some ideas around about how to organize it. The basic idea is industrial design based on sound and community. The final output would ideally be some type of cad file of a bowl (I figure that's the easiest object to start with) that would be warped and affected by the soundscape the users create. To do this, I would like to have a table with various buttons and potentiometers. These would be spread out enough so that it would be impossible for one person to control them all. With at least 2 people, they could launch audio clips, use a few of the buttons as a drum machine, and have the potentiometers control various effects. This would then lead to a Processing sketch where a simple, basic form is warped, deconstructed, or altered in some way. I've got basic Arduino and Processing skills and I'm willing to put in a good chunk of the next month and a half into this.

 

Here's how it's organized in my mind so far:

1. Build a midi controller via Arduino

2. Use it to control Ableton for all things sound

3. Have the midi messages from the Arduino simultaneously be sent to a sketch in Processing

4. Build the bowl from the bottom up over the duration of user input, reacting to the midi messages they send

5. Export it to a cad file

 

What are your thoughts on this? Am I going about this in a totally wrong direction? If you think this is the simplest way to do this, what libraries do you recommend? So far, I'm planning on using themidibus or proMidi for the input and supercad to export it. I'm also going to look into the ModelBuilder compilation. I haven't really looked into libraries for actually generating the bowl so any recommendations there would be huge. Thanks in advance for all the help internet!