[PD] libpd and BUG Labs

[Andrew Turley]

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.

andy