[PD] Message from the boss of Raspberry Pi Foundation !

[Pierre Massat]

Dear all,

Please read below the message I received from Eben Upton, the boss of
Raspberry Pi foundation.
It looks like he was impressed by the video I made, and he says that
there's a possibility of letting the GPU do some DSP computation.
I guess you'll all agree that this is awesome news.

I have no idea how we can proceed now. I think i'm absolutely incapable of
doing anything useful in this field, so i told him that i would transfer
this message to you, hoping that Miller, HC, Katja (and others) would know
what needs to be done. We should probably ask him if you guys could work
directly with their developers.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers!

Pierre.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eben Upton <eben at raspberrypi.org>
Date: 2013/2/8
Subject: Re: RPi as multi-effects for guitar
To: Pierre Massat <pimassat at gmail.com>


Hi Pierre
Awesome stuff - I think Liz is preparing a blog post about this as we
speak. I'd be very interested in knowing a bit more about the DSP code
that runs this stuff. We have a bunch of GPU compute available on the
device just waiting for an application like this.

Cheers
Eben

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Pierre Massat <pimassat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I write a blog about how to make guitar effects with computers running
Pure
> Data in real-time.
> When I first heard about the Raspberry Pi I thought it would be great if I
> could use it for the same purpose. It would only be much cheaper, and much
> smaller than my current laptop, and could fit in my hand-made stompbox.
> Recent improvements in Raspbian have finally made this possible, and this
> makes me very happy !
> The Raspberry Pi is now actually capable of running rather demanding Pure
> Data patches in (quasi-) real-time (at least with a latency that's low
> enough to play live with it).
> I quickly assembled a small patch to test it and make a video to
demonstrate
> that it actually works very well.
>
> It is obviously not the use the RPi was originally intended for, but to me
> (and I'm sure to other musicians as well), this sounds like a revolution.
>
> I'm currently documenting my setup on my blog :
> - video :
>
http://guitarextended.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/real-time-guitar-effects-with-raspberry-pi-pd-and-arduino/
> - blog post about hardware :
>
http://guitarextended.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/raspberry-pi-multi-effects-overview-of-the-setup/
>
> There's no trick, the Pi really IS doing all the DSP work. A reader
posted a
> comment to ask where the computer was :)
>
> I take this opportunity to thank the RPi foundation for all the good work
> you put in this amazing tiny thing. I see that the cam should be out in a
> few months, this is all very exciting. I'm sure the Pi has already changed
> the life of a lot of people !
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pierre.
>
>
>
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