@Attheveryend -- My understanding was that most software with fast Fourier transforms was similarly limited in their efficiency at distinguishing and picking apart various constituent pitches. Most audio signals from a microphone would be rather noisy. Then again, like I said my understanding is...
Thanks berkeman. That's good advice. I'll be working on a catchy flyer to post at the University of Houston engineering schools.
Despite my extreme ineptitude I am convinced that I am supposed to create this device.
Disclaimer: I have zero electrical engineering/physics/math experience. In fact, I am a painting major. (Laugh it up)
That said, I've been dreaming for quite some time of a very exacting music visualizer which would put all other music visualizers to shame, in that it would have a different...