Study of central production of charged pionic modes at COMPASS

The COmmon Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy is a fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator. In the years 2008 and 2009 the collaboration focused on hadron spectroscopy: data with hadronic beams at a momentum of 190 GeV$/c$ impinging on hydrogen, lead, nickel and tungsten targets were taken. In the preparation for this run-time, the apparatus was adapted to measure the formation of resonances by both diffractive scattering and central production. In the latter case, the study of charged pionic channels is well-suited to search for members of the $f_{0}$ particle family, including some of the glueball candidates. The analysis of the newly taken data has started, these proceedings are meant to give a status and overview of the current activities