[sdiy] is raspberry pi the future?

[Marc Nostromo [M-.-n]]

I don't know about using the RPi as base for proper synth building.
However as a platform for building inexpensive digital synth I love
it. Hook a cheap USB audio out and midi in and you are ready to go.

I've successfully ported my tracker to it

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/341346_10151102704988284_1068931733_o.jpg

And it runs flawlessly.

I've also tried some onboard headless synthesis and it works quite
well as long as you don't overload it too much with heavy algorithms:

http://www.marc-nostromo.com/?p=158

Right now for diy synth I'm more into using the teensy, and for
dsp-based or sequencing the RPi.

Cheers,
/M

2013/3/15 cheater cheater <cheater00 at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Neil Johnson
> <neil.johnson97 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> GPIO is a bit limited on the RasPi.  If you want decent audio out of the
>> 2835 directly (rather than via USB) then a better option would be to hook up
>> an audio codec to the I2S lines and enable the driver -- I think this is
>> available for the RasPi, but you'd need to check with the Foundation.
>
> That's a great idea. I wonder if i2s has a standard linux driver of some sort.
>
>> I believe I can say that I have quite a good grasp of what the 2835 is
>> capable of.
>
> Yes
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