Can as Raspberry Pi serve any practical purpose in the production process?
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 11 posts since 2 Feb, 2016
Looking online I can only find projects that are built for the fun of building (nothing wrong with that) and not because the Pi can do something better/cheaper than a dedicated piece of hardware. Have any of you managed to enhance your process with a Pi?
- KVRAF
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
I have been wondering the same, I want a Pi, but wonder if it will be left on the shelf.
But looking at the specs of Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, this is almost like the power a regular laptop had 10 years ago:
-A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU
-1GB RAM
It would be intersting to try to get LMMS to run on it
But looking at the specs of Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, this is almost like the power a regular laptop had 10 years ago:
-A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU
-1GB RAM
It would be intersting to try to get LMMS to run on it
- KVRAF
- 4129 posts since 11 Aug, 2006 from Texas
That ARM core on the Pi is really low end. It's not going to be terribly practical as a signal generator for all but the most basic sounds (sample trigger, 8-bit style waveforms).
However, the chip is more than capable of being a midi generator or manipulator. It'd be excellent as the starting point for a custom arp, your own hardware interface to midi, cv to midi, or usb <-> midi converter.
However, the chip is more than capable of being a midi generator or manipulator. It'd be excellent as the starting point for a custom arp, your own hardware interface to midi, cv to midi, or usb <-> midi converter.
Feel free to call me Brian.
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Erm, yes it is; its more powerful than systems that some people were using when this place started. Stuff like Rebirth ran on much slower PCs than that, and the quadcore Pi2 is capable of running the kind of stuff that's turned up on mobile phones.bmrzycki wrote:That ARM core on the Pi is really low end. It's not going to be terribly practical as a signal generator for all but the most basic sounds (sample trigger, 8-bit style waveforms)..
Benchmarks put it somewhere around a 2003/2004 Pentium IV, which lots of people managed to use for far more than '8-bit style waveforms'.
http://www.tenpencepiece.net/blog/2015/ ... erry-pi-2/
That puts it around the speed of an early Intel Atom too, and Korg managed to build the original Kronos around that processor.
Even the original single-core Pi is capable of running realtime CSound and PureData patches. Google 'Qubit Nebulae'.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
I'd quite like to have something like a Qubit Nebulae in my Eurorack modular synth. But they dont seem to be in production any more. If someone brings one out based on the Pi2, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.AlexBridgez wrote:Looking online I can only find projects that are built for the fun of building (nothing wrong with that) and not because the Pi can do something better/cheaper than a dedicated piece of hardware. Have any of you managed to enhance your process with a Pi?
That said, I think any potential use of a Pi is fairly niche and far less immediate than most people here would be comfortable with.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 11 posts since 2 Feb, 2016
That's what I feared. Still, it will be an interesting space to watch in the future, especially with the Pi Zero being so small and affordable.whyterabbyt wrote:That said, I think any potential use of a Pi is fairly niche and far less immediate than most people here would be comfortable with.
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- KVRian
- 925 posts since 14 Dec, 2014
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- KVRAF
- 15507 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
The thing with sonic pi is that, if you're interested in it, there's no reason to run it on a raspberry pi, just run it on your DAW machine. It's just a bog starndard application. The reason that pi has anything to do with it is because it was designed to be able to run on a machine when no better machine was available. The idea being that kids with few resources could still explore music and programming.pottering wrote:http://sonic-pi.net/
- KVRAF
- 11482 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
I seem to remember seeing a DAC kit for the Pi in one of the "Beginner's Guide" magazines.
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Yeah, there are DACs out there, and Ive seen some 24/192KHz boards aimed at media player useage. In fact Ive just been lucky enough to order a Pi Zero and got a DAC board to go with it.seismic1 wrote:I seem to remember seeing a DAC kit for the Pi in one of the "Beginner's Guide" magazines.
What I cant seem to find is a 16-bit (or better) audio rate ADC, though.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
- KVRAF
- 12334 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
Wow, that's pretty impressive. Do you know if all voices were running at the same time, or where there overdubs?
I've been interested in getting into a platform, on which I can prototype stuff very quickly and throw it at my modular. STM32/ARM has seemed the way to go thus far but maybe I'll need to take another look at the Raspberry Pi.
I've been interested in getting into a platform, on which I can prototype stuff very quickly and throw it at my modular. STM32/ARM has seemed the way to go thus far but maybe I'll need to take another look at the Raspberry Pi.
- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
From how it reads, its all at the same time.justin3am wrote:Wow, that's pretty impressive. Do you know if all voices were running at the same time, or where there overdubs?
I've been interested in getting into a platform, on which I can prototype stuff very quickly and throw it at my modular. STM32/ARM has seemed the way to go thus far but maybe I'll need to take another look at the Raspberry Pi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B44f_NB6Tg0
Check out 'Being Boiled' on this page too.
http://www.omenie.com/SynthCollection.html
I got a Pi Zero in the post today; tiny little beastie, and I also got a 24bit/192Khz shield in the same form factor for it for about a tenner (pHATdac). Im pretty damn sure its getting hooked up to my modular somehow.
my other modular synth is a bugbrand
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
I joined the Kickstarter for the Pine64. No clue what I'll do with it though.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pi ... per-comput
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pi ... per-comput
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.