On Apr 21, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Andrew Turley wrote:
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.
I think it doesn't hurt to have different options out there, so while
I agree bugs labs is more money than barebones embedded platforms, if
you want the ease they offer, it could be worth the money.
I'm curious whether you had a particular idea in mind when porting Pd
to the bug labs setup. I think there is a lot of potential in using
audio in product design.
.hc
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