[PD] best way of controlling 50 speakers with pd?

Andy Farnell padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Sun Sep 2 21:28:48 CEST 2012



In that case Umberto, one more specific question;

Do you need these speakers to play simultaneously, or
for just one to make a sound at any time?

Andy

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:18:55PM +0200, umberto torrez wrote:
> Hi, Andy and how does your system work? Do you have a link?
> How many speakers are you using?
> 
> 
> I dont need high degree of phase stability , i need to control 50 very
> cheap speakers. I dont really mind if they dont produce all the frequency
> range.
> If each speaker generate only one frequency , its ok.
> 
> I only need to be able to control them (the 50) from the computer,  i was
> thinking, maybe not using sound?
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> U.
> 
> 
> 2012/9/2 Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>
> 
> >
> > A question to consider; Do the channels need a high degree
> > of phase stability?
> >
> > Fernando is designing for a WFS system here. You may have more
> > relaxed requirements for a theatre or installation multichannel
> > system not needing such a degree of correlation.
> > Using a very simliar approach with jack-udp, but with
> > asynchronous receivers, chained ethernet, using gumstick
> > or Raspberry Pi boards with cheap audio USB dongles.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:16:40AM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > > Best solution I've seen so far is by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano -- there's a
> > > paper in the Linux Audio Conference 2012:
> > > http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/papers/29.pdf
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > miller
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:58:50PM +0200, umberto torrez wrote:
> > > > Hi list, i was wondering which is the best approach for controlling a
> > lots
> > > > of speakers with pd? 50 ?
> > > > Is there any hardware or technique that allows to do this and that is
> > not
> > > > so expensive?
> > > >
> > > > any idea?
> > > >
> > > > Umberto.
> > >
> >
> >

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