On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Simon Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/04/11 16:47, [email protected] wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:15:29PM -0400, Andrew Turley wrote: > >>> Nothing revolutionary, but I thought people might enjoy seeing Pure >>> Data on yet another platform (in this case, running in OSGi on ARM). > >> >> That's great, nevertheless your company's product or too expensive >> for what they are! May be if you were to come up with something like >> Panda or Beagle board, but more pro-audio oriented (i.e. with ballanced >> mic input and good 96Hz converters) - many people here would be >> intereseted :) It doesn't have to be OMAP (in fact better not OMAP), but >> any other multicore ARM with VPF, e.g. Marvell ARMADA. Contact me if you >> do need more information on this .. And certainly a cheaper enclosure .. >> I see that your company make these nice and expensive eclosures ..which >> would rather be optional, from my point of view! > > Clearly then these devices are not for you (and audio isn't their focus) but > there is surely a place for a modular system like this ... clearly a lot of > effort has gone into creating a slick set of units. Why not sell them if > there are people who want them? > > If you are wanting to do similar yourself .. their software development is > open source, downloadable from the site and the work they have done is > available for you to use in any other open source project. > > I have only just looked over the site, but if the internals have had similar > care and attention as the design and exterior it would be a nice kit to work > with, and because of the nice exterior etc it would be more attractive to > some kinds of clients. I'd say how expensive the kits seem depends on how > much you put a $ value on your own development time .. if you develop stuff > for your own pleasure/learning/satisfaction/whatever then maybe it isn't for > you. If you don't have the cash it isn't for you either, but the work put > into the code has been paid for by their customers, and that code is free > for you to use (in FLOSS projects of course). > > It's nice to see Pd have a wide range of uses. > > Simon >
errordeveloper, I agree, the price point doesn't work for everybody. To be clear, I wasn't trying to sell units, I just wanted to share something that I had done. We've tossed around the idea of a high-end audio module. I'll pass that information along if we end up doing it. andy _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
