Hi Mick, The RPI tends to have poor performance on it's USB bus and that makes it hard to do interesting audio things. Playback may be fine, any other kind of DSP starts to cause issues.
If you can, use the Beaglebone <http://beagleboard.org/bone> instead. It's a much improved version of the pi. Ben On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Marc Lavallée <m...@hacklava.net> wrote: > Hi Mick. > > The general idea is to combine a RPI and a USB sound module the same > way we can use a computer and a sound module, but specialized as a > multichannel player. The RPI can be replaced with many ARM based > computer, including phones and tablets. The advantage of using a USB > sound module is that the driver is the same for most (if not all) of > them. The disadvantage is a higher cost than a dedicated/embedded sound > chip, but for DIY/prototyping, I think it's the easiest way. > > I don't know how feasible this project is; there are limits in terms > of channels, performance and quality. It requires Linux and/or Android > development skills, time and patience... > > -- > Marc > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:40:11 +0000, mick ritchie wrote: > > Any links to this pi and usb sound module options? > > > > mick > > On 14 Dec 2014, at 13:04, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 07:30:17 +0100, David Pickett wrote: > > > At 00:54 14-12-14, Louis Mustill wrote: > > >> Not used it myself but this might be of interest. > > >> They make lovely kit generally. > > >> > > >> http://www.sounddevices.com/products/970/ > > > > > > I should hope so at $4,629.00! > > > > > > > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1044277-REG/sound_devices_970_64_track_dante_and_madi.html > > > > > > David > > > > A lovely DIY kit made of a Raspberry Pi and a USB sound module (8 > > channels, 16bit/48Khz), with a wifi web interface, would cost less > > than $200. Yet to be tested... Who would accept the challenge and > > report here? > > -- > > Marc > > _______________________________________________ > > Sursound mailing list > > Sursound@music.vt.edu > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe > > here, edit account or options, view archives and so on. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sursound mailing list > > Sursound@music.vt.edu > > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe > > here, edit account or options, view archives and so on. > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20141218/239c9b84/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
