On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "We have nothing to fear from love and commitment." - New York Senator Diane > Savino, trying to convince the NY Senate to pass a gay marriage bill > >
I didn't have any specific ideas in mind when I was working on getting libpd running on the BUG. I started working on it when I started with the company, as a way to gain some understanding of OSGi and jni bindings. I thought it might be useful to experiment with ideas like graphical event-driven programming and WYSIWYG GUI design, and I thought libpd might be a good way to get those things up and running quickly. I've also been interested in prototyping digital instrument design, and having a small programmable DSP platform with easy access to an accelerometer, camera, and analog and digital IO seemed like a useful tool. andy _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
