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Audiolab direct to QC?

Hi Pierre:

First, an enormous appreciation to the QC and Audiolab teams on enormous work well done.
Second, without detracting from this accomplishment let me ask a few questions about QC possibilities:

1.  Is there a way to directly connect the output of 'Audiolab' to the 'Audio Input' patch of QC?
     Especially to attach several, or many Audiolab busses to the same number of audio input patches 
     separately?  That would be particularly handy for feeding individual channels into different parts
     of a QC comp and especially custom filtered audio into different QC parameters.  Level
     adjustments could also be done on each channel by 'Audiolab.'

2.  The 'Audio Input' patch could use another additional parameter; an adjustable 'Envelope Follower'
     with wide ranging attack and decay variability.  Is there a way to accomplish this presently?
     I've tried various patches downstream but nothing seems to capture the audio and produce a
     slower varying output than the rather jumpy 'Volume Peak.'  Envelope output would bring in a
     whole range of QC apps based on the 'color organ' scheme of changing various audio frequencies
     into colors.

I've tried 'interpolator' without much success, maybe I'm not using it right.

As a fan of sound to color and shape I'm aware that most sound to color converters lack really powerful and adjustable digital filtering. The present Audiolab 'effects' filters are perfect, especially highly tunable and 'Q' (cents) adjustable bandpass filters which can be set into narrow, custom selected portions of the audio spectrum. 

Using the fairly standard EQ model of the audio spectrum (as with 'Spectrum' in 'Audio Input') doesn't optimize sound to color, you really want to set some fairly narrow filters down into the voice ranges (particularly around 60-250 Hz, 1 kHz and 2 kHz) so you can watch the emotion of the singing better, and several more down in the bass region to follow the baseline clearly.

3.  It would also be important that decay variability on any envelope follower be set so that it could
     range into the hours.  That would allow buildup of display changes from 'ambient' sound, a screen
     saver could be sensitive to faint or intermittent sounds coming in through a microphone and insert
     changes into the display as desired.  Great for 'environmentally sensitive' displays.

4.  In Renderers, could a couple be added eventually that do fractals and Mandlebrot rendering?
     Between enhanced audio input selectivity, excellent filters as already written for Audiolab
     and some Mandlebrot rendering an extensive range of interesting screen savers and other 'eye
     candy' could easily be constructed.  Excellent for advertising attention getters, live musical
     performance projections and displays and recorded music enhancement.

Show those displays on some of the new, bright, huge TV displays and Whoa!  What an experience!

Larry Grant 
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