[PD] libpd and BUG Labs

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 21, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Andrew Turley wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On 21/04/11 16:47, errordeveloper at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:15:29PM -0400, Andrew Turley wrote:
>>
>>>> Nothing revolutionary, but I thought people might enjoy seeing Pure
>>>> Data on yet another platform (in this case, running in OSGi on  
>>>> ARM).
>>
>>>
>>> That's great, nevertheless your company's product or too expensive
>>> for what they are! May be if you were to come up with something like
>>> Panda or Beagle board, but more pro-audio oriented (i.e. with  
>>> ballanced
>>> mic input and good 96Hz converters) - many people here would be
>>> intereseted :) It doesn't have to be OMAP (in fact better not  
>>> OMAP), but
>>> any other multicore ARM with VPF, e.g. Marvell ARMADA. Contact me  
>>> if you
>>> do need more information on this .. And certainly a cheaper  
>>> enclosure ..
>>> I see that your company make these nice and expensive  
>>> eclosures ..which
>>> would rather be optional, from my point of view!
>>
>> Clearly then these devices are not for you (and audio isn't their  
>> focus) but
>> there is surely a place for a modular system like this ... clearly  
>> a lot of
>> effort has gone into creating a slick set of units. Why not sell  
>> them if
>> there are people who want them?
>>
>> If you are wanting to do similar yourself .. their software  
>> development is
>> open source, downloadable from the site and the work they have done  
>> is
>> available for you to use in any other open source project.
>>
>> I have only just looked over the site, but if the internals have  
>> had similar
>> care and attention as the design and exterior it would be a nice  
>> kit to work
>> with, and because of the nice exterior etc it would be more  
>> attractive to
>> some kinds of clients. I'd say how expensive the kits seem depends  
>> on how
>> much you put a $ value on your own development time .. if you  
>> develop stuff
>> for your own pleasure/learning/satisfaction/whatever then maybe it  
>> isn't for
>> you. If you don't have the cash it isn't for you either, but the  
>> work put
>> into the code has been paid for by their customers, and that code  
>> is free
>> for you to use (in FLOSS projects of course).
>>
>> It's nice to see Pd have a wide range of uses.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>
> errordeveloper, I agree, the price point doesn't work for everybody.
> To be clear, I wasn't trying to sell units, I just wanted to share
> something that I had done. We've tossed around the idea of a high-end
> audio module. I'll pass that information along if we end up doing it.

I think it doesn't hurt to have different options out there, so while  
I agree bugs labs is more money than barebones embedded platforms, if  
you want the ease they offer, it could be worth the money.

I'm curious whether you had a particular idea in mind when porting Pd  
to the bug labs setup.  I think there is a lot of potential in using  
audio in product design.

.hc


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