Put me on your pre-order list already Dave! :-). Cheers Garth Sent on the Move
On 05/07/2012, at 19:48, Dave Malham <dave.mal...@york.ac.uk> wrote: > Wow! Fantastic response .. lots to think about. Will let you know how I get > on. Part of the problem is hardware as I was unable (at the time I got this > board) to find a case with a HD Audio front panel so it currently thinks it's > running in AC97 mode, but I'm going to knock something up to get round this. > In the mean time I'm going to play with the suggestions people have made > (Puppy is currently booting). > > I'm also interested in the paper that Fernando gave us a link to. Although I > don't want to use the Mamba hardware, I _am_ interested in the possibilities > for a dedicated multichannel player for installation work (another retirement > project!) What I'm looking at at present is a multichannel dac linked > directly (not via USB or owt like that) to an Arm processor that'll just play > a multichannel file off of a USB stick or SD card. For prototyping I'll be > using a BeagleBone (as I definitely don't want the extra bells and whistles > of the BeagleBoard itself) - I'd prefer to use the RPi but the chip used (at > least, according to the manual) appears to have a crippled McASP port that > can only handle stereo, whereas the ARM on the BeagleBone has a good enough > implementation of McASP that it can do 16 channels at 48k for definite (EAOE) > and probably up to 96k without too much trouble. If initial tests prove the > concept, I'll look KickStarter funding. The idea is to have an absolutely > rock solid box that just plays stuff without any of the hassles of systems > relying on computers (ha! That'll be the day)) The most it would have is an > on/off switch and play controls - but it would output up to 16 channels, > balanced, 24 bits. > > Dave > > > On 05/07/2012 07:50, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: >> On 07/04/2012 06:40 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: >>> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano<na...@ccrma.stanford.edu> a écrit : >>> >>> Single board computers are interesting platforms to create dedicated >>> ambisonic players. >> >> Indeed! >> >>> Let us know how the beagle board perform with a port of Planet CCRMA. ;-) >> >> I will, I just have to find the time to test. I'm curious whether a small >> box like that can drive 1/2 of the Mamba box I was driving from a regular >> desktop. 32 channel playback through an ethernet port[*]... >> >> -- Fernando >> >> [*] https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~nando/publications/jack_mamba_lac2012.pdf >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> Sursound@music.vt.edu >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > > -- > These are my own views and may or may not be shared by my employer > /*********************************************************************/ > /* Dave Malham http://music.york.ac.uk/staff/research/dave-malham/ */ > /* Music Research Centre */ > /* Department of Music "http://music.york.ac.uk/"; */ > /* The University of York Phone 01904 322448 */ > /* Heslington Fax 01904 322450 */ > /* York YO10 5DD */ > /* UK 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' */ > /* "http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/3d_audio/"; */ > /*********************************************************************/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
