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Some people are asking whether you can just use a Raspberry Pi Can you point us to what hardware (DSPs or DACs) we should use instead? Can I use them as digit
by bravura 8y ago
Some people are asking whether you can just use a Raspberry Pi
Can you point us to what hardware (DSPs or DACs) we should use instead?
Can I use them as digital synths?
Can I use them for digital FX?
If I want to make a digital synth with lower latency than a RPi, what hardware should I use that won't be as hard as an FPGA to program?
- klodolph 8y agoThe comment was mostly aimed at the poor state of audio on Linux. I think it’s important to understand what your goals are when you’re doing this. Are you building something? Will it be mass-manufactured? Does it need to be reliable? Does it need to be low-latency? If you’re building something one-shot or playing around, RPi is great it’s just that real-time audio on Linux is a pain. If you want to play with real-time, low-latency effects I would get a Mac or Windows PC and hook it up to a $100 USB audio interface. If you want to mass manufacture a box that makes noise, at that point it starts to make more sense to research DSPs. They often have weird architectures and the toolchains might not be great. But I suspect that more and more audio stuff is moving to general purpose CPUs and microcontrollers.