[music-dsp] best board/set to do music on with minimal upstart?

2012-04-13 Thread Bram de Jong
Hey guys, Reading rbj's thread made me think again I''d like to do some simple music processing on a dedicated board with a dedicated chip... Something that runs on low-power (battery??), just for me to write some simple audio I/O stuff, hook up one or two pots and tweak the sound. I have

Re: [music-dsp] best board/set to do music on with minimal upstart?

2012-04-13 Thread Alessandro Saccoia
Arduino paired with a decent ADC/DAC would be good just for lightweight DSP. It could be used to control a workhorse DSP through I2C communication, but I don't think there is any ready to go development board out thereā€¦ you should wire it yourself, and program both the processors. alessandro On

Re: [music-dsp] best board/set to do music on with minimal upstart?

2012-04-13 Thread douglas repetto
I know the Propeller board does video, so probably it can do audio... http://www.parallax.com/tabid/407/Default.aspx On 4/13/12 6:33 AM, Alessandro Saccoia wrote: Arduino paired with a decent ADC/DAC would be good just for lightweight DSP. It could be used to control a workhorse DSP through

Re: [music-dsp] best board/set to do music on with minimal upstart?

2012-04-13 Thread douglas repetto
Or, of course, just use a tiny linux box! http://www.raspberrypi.org/ On 4/13/12 8:54 AM, douglas repetto wrote: I know the Propeller board does video, so probably it can do audio... http://www.parallax.com/tabid/407/Default.aspx On 4/13/12 6:33 AM, Alessandro Saccoia wrote: Arduino

Re: [music-dsp] best board/set to do music on with minimal upstart?

2012-04-13 Thread QuikQuak
There R-Pi is incredibly cheap and has hdmi output. But... The analogue audio is a low quality 1 bit PWM, there is no DAC! You can't access the HDMI drivers, because of the licence agreement. There may be a possibility to use an external USB stick, if the device communicates fast enough with it,

Re: [music-dsp] best board/set to do music on with minimal upstart?

2012-04-13 Thread Eric Brombaugh
I've been working with some folks who sell DAW plugins to port their synth effects code to the Beagleboard and Beaglebone embedded computers. So far it appears to work pretty well - the Cortex A8 processor is sufficiently powerful to run the algorithms and the development environment is