SynthMaker

Raspberry Pi

Archive · 2011 6 old posts

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AngularMomentum ·

Just seen this on a Dutch website. Raspberry Pi, a very basic PC almost as small as a pendrive, with a small price. Only 15 pounds and maybe even less. I hope they become available to us poor musicians too, my mind has been wandering off on it for the past hour. 🙂

I always wanted to mod a MIDI controller or a cheap second hand keyboard.

Touchscreen in there, USB hub, generic USB MIDI interface, USB soundcard...maybe some other input devices like a mini keyboard with trackball...Would make an awesome Neko style surface, maybe even a synth, but I would like is just to enhance MIDI features, making it a uber MIDI controller.

It would have to run a Linux flavor, but that shouldn't make it less fun to build one and there are a bunch of plugins that run fine on Linux with FST and such. I don't think you would be able to run a lot of plugins on this ARM11 at 700mhz though. As a MIDI controller I think it would do just fine.

Pretty fun you can also watch (tutorial) movies, play MP3 files and an odd game on it too. With software like Synergy installed you could even control the DAW computer keyboard and mouse via wireless LAN, integrating everything into 1 surface, even controlling several computers, doesn't matter if it's OSX, Windows or Linux.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/pQ7N4rycsy4

attic ·

Thanks for the link. This will be something to keep an eye on. 🙂

philter5 ·

thx AM. very interesting device hehe 😀

tektoog ·

This one is pretty cool too !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17DPJHNV ... r_embedded

trogluddite ·

LMAO. 😀 😀

aliasant ·

tektoog wrote: This one is pretty cool too !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17DPJHNV ... r_embedded

LMAO x2 ! 😀

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