Meeting with Hugh

This morning I met with Hugh McCarthy from the Cork School of Music. We discussed my idea and he helped me a lot with the back end of the project. He introduced me to a server based software program called Flosc which will handle the sending and receiving of the drum samples/clips using the Flash XML socket function. Because I've never heard of this software before I don't understand the ins and outs of how it works. Thankfully though, Hugh is well used to it and so he can explain it very well.

After we looked at the coding side of things Hugh brought me down to the Electronic Music room. This is where they keep all their electric + MIDI instruments: drums, keyboard, guitar etc. He showed me the different resources that were available for my use and pointed out which instruments would work for each part of my project. Using digital instruments affords perfect accuracy and therefore optimum flexibility for the end user.

I'll be meeting with Hugh again at the same time next week. In the meantime, I'm going to make a start on a basic working model of the Flash interface so that we can move onto the back end code next week.