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Comment on Listen to space’s spookiest sounds with this NASA playlist by Daniel Springs

Daniel Springs — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 05:47:00 +0000

Great article. But I have to admit I almost fell out of my chair at the end of the video. Started to look like the boiler room at TEDx.

Comment on Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120 by Ezmyrelda Andrade

Ezmyrelda Andrade — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 05:42:00 +0000

In reply to ArcherStanton. R&D costs a pretty penny.

Comment on Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120 by Enkerli

Enkerli — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 04:48:00 +0000

In reply to Peter Kirn.

Been having a lot of fun with my pisound-based setups, including during a “Symphony Hack Lab” event at the National Arts Centre, here in Ottawa.
One setup is mostly an enhancement to the base Raspbian distro, especially with Sonic Pi (which makes for a nice demo when you use it to control Minecraft).
My other setup is dedicated to MODEP (MOD Emulation for pisound). Ended up compiling all sorts of LV2 plugins for use with it, which was a learning experience. Blokas has been working on a new distro. Plugging a couple of MIDI controllers (an Alesis keyboard and a Yamaha wind controller) to play with virtual pedalboards (including softsynths) has been quite a bit of fun. Simple but effective. Recently used my interactions with kids through that setup as a way to wrap up an academic article on digital musicking and sound bricolage.

Comment on Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120 by Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 01:21:00 +0000

In reply to Enkerli.

Sorry, didn’t mean to sound like I was necessarily dumping on RasPi. I think a proper shootout is in order. Pisound + RasPi starts to get really, really useful.

And yeah, sort of similar situation to the way Ubuntu and some bigger distros have evolved – I think you’re totally right; in time it’s really about the community around the original thing.

Comment on Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120 by Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 01:20:00 +0000

In reply to Enkerli.

Yeah, that’s fair… the Axoloti is cool but therefore not quite a direct comparison…

Comment on Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120 by Enkerli

Enkerli — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:17:00 +0000

In reply to WOK. Apart from latency and size, the fact that you can develop in all of these languages is a major advantage. The Axoloti software is cool and all, but its development environment is very idiosyncratic. The concept is neat and there are very impressive builds using it, but investing your time on it is a decision that you make based on other factors than the initial cost of an Axoloti Core board (which is more fragile than, say, a pisound HAT for Raspberry Pi). Different tools for different uses.

Comment on Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120 by Enkerli

Enkerli — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 23:53:00 +0000

About that “much-hyped Raspberry Pi”…
It’s been said before (by many people in different venues) but the key thing RasPi has is a community. That “hype” you mention isn’t a matter of specs. It’s an effect of the community surrounding the platform.
Got an original Bela, an Axoloti Core, a Pine A64 (announced as a “Raspberry Pi killer), several Arduino boards, etc. Keep going back to my Raspberry Pi setups. My first Pi taught me more in four months than my whole PhD coursework. That’s not in the specs.

Comment on Bela Mini gives you 1ms sound anywhere, to turn into anything, for £120 by WOK

WOK — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:57:00 +0000

The Axoloti Core has MIDI and 24/96 audio for nearly half this price. So where is the benefit of this one (except the size)?

Comment on Glitch Delay is a DIY module you can make – and it makes lovely music by Velocipede

Velocipede — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:48:00 +0000

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