Pisound - interesting project to complement the Duo

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#1

Hi guys,

I just stumbled over the indiegogo campaign for a project called pisound. It is an addon (cape, hat, breakout board… however you want to name it) for the Raspberry Pi and offers high-quality audio and MIDI connections. For me it’s interesting because I would finally be able to play around with the MOD’s MIDI capabilities while waiting for the Control Chain protocol and loading impulse responses :innocent: Thought I’d share it because I like their approach and perhaps some of you are interested as well.

Here’s the campaign, they promise to deliver the finished product by June this year.

Have a good weekend y’all!

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#2

Ohhh, that’s nice, thanks for bringing it up! A wee bit too expensive though I think but very interesting nonetheless. Unfortunately the setup script doesn’t do any optimization whatsoever so OOTB you’ll get poor performance with the PiSound.

#3

Hi @ll,

I have a pisound (beta) on top of an RPi3 and optimized software (all based on minibian): works quite well!

Regards, Holger

#4

Oh no! In which way you reckon, will the pisound board show poor performance? Sound quality? Latency? MIDI issues?

I bought a board to support the company and their engagement for free software and open schematics. And, of course, because it is a nifty little product.

#5

I wasn’t talking about the PiSound itself but I would have hoped that their setup script would do some improvements to the OS. Unfortunately it doesn’t so if you use a PiSound with their setup script you don’t get the most out of your PiSound, especially latency wise.

#6

Ah, OK, so your criticism is geared towards the default values. I agree that this should be optimised for low latency. Yet, in the end it is software; latency/buffer settings can be changed later on. Perhaps they intentionally chose conservative values to avoid buffer underruns or keep the CPU load low?

#7

Maybe. But let’s wait how this evolves, maybe a more improved setup script pops up in the near future :slight_smile:

#8

Absolutely… maybe they prepare something already before the first batch is shipped. Let’s worry about that when it becomes a problem! :smiley:

BTW: the Barvaux pedalboard you shared is SUPERB! :+1:

#9

And then there’s always the community that can help out if any latency or performance issues occur. And thanks for the compliment. Hopefully I manage to squeeze out a complete song so I can perform it live during LAC2017.