Opensource hardware CDJ/MIDIPC - Raspberry Pi ($25)

[thisisdjkaz]

Looks like it has potential!

[MiL0]

available for pre-order last week - did anyone nab one? (the first batch is sold out now!)

[Archies'bald]

Yeah, but can it play Crysis?

[MiL0]

here's some more info about the i/o board:

[Shishdisma]

This has the potential to be pretty cool, but to my understanding, it's currently rendered useless by Android and the ARM chip. Unless you're going to write Core/Directaudio for Android (Google would have a permenant position for you), and then port your software to an ARM based architecture (I'm not sure if that's even legal), it's not going to have any practical purposes at the moment. It is, however, one of the greatest ideas since the concept of the CDJ, and really needs to get snagged by hardware manufacturers (think that new Stanton console), hopefully not getting bogged down by GPL nonsense.

[zestoi]

what has android got to do with this? surely it's a great platform for running linux on...

[Cybertrash]

what has android got to do with this? surely it's a great platform for running linux on...

Pretty much this. There's even a Rasperry Pi-adapted version of Fedora out there, and I think more distros are coming.

I don't see how Android OR Core Audio fits into this at all... Linux already has it's own low-latency drivers, no?

OT: Rasperry Pi is awesome, I can't wait to see what people will come up with using it.

[Shishdisma]

Pretty much this. There's even a Rasperry Pi-adapted version of Fedora out there, and I think more distros are coming.

I don't see how Android OR Core Audio fits into this at all... Linux already has it's own low-latency drivers, no?

OT: Rasperry Pi is awesome, I can't wait to see what people will come up with using it.

You're telling me that a 700mhz ARM chip is going to run open source perfomance software over Linux low-latency drivers, and be stable enough for serious performance? This is a great concept, one that should be expanded on like the CDJs and SCS.4DJ, but the current hardware doesn't seem up to the task. I typically run standalone Maschine comfortably at 20ms, over CoreAudio on my 2.3 C2D. I have trouble believing that current Linux drivers could get anything close to that on an old smartphone, especially considering the software side of it. But I could be wrong, or my standards are just a bit high.

[deevey]

You're telling me that a 700mhz ARM chip is going to run open source perfomance software over Linux low-latency drivers, and be stable enough for serious performance? This is a great concept, one that should be expanded on like the CDJs and SCS.4DJ, but the current hardware doesn't seem up to the task. I typically run standalone Maschine comfortably at 20ms, over CoreAudio on my 2.3 C2D. I have trouble believing that current Linux drivers could get anything close to that on an old smartphone, especially considering the software side of it. But I could be wrong, or my standards are just a bit high.

I can't imagine a CDJ has any more than a 700mhz processor, the iPhone (3gs) is 600mhz and works perfectly with a dual deck DJ application with beat detection eq and other toys?

It'll depend how its programmed, how slimmed down everything is going to be and how many background tasks are running.

I don't think you can compare the Maschine Application running on a Mac to a CDJ style dedicated software running on a box its been designed for.

[MiL0]

don't forget the Pi has hardware decoding for video/audio so the ARM processor speed doesn't necessarily matter as much.... just look at XBMC running 1080p videos perfectly on the Pi