I have a beagle bone (which is less powerful CPU wise than a
beagleboard and unlike the beagleboard has no on-board sound card),
and intend to get csound installed on it and working with a USB sound
card. The specs are not that much worse than the N900 I was using
until its recent demise (which could do fm and live IO with some
reverb with no problem, or dynamically resynthesize a pvoc file with a
gui controlling position / pitch, but granulation or pvs stuff was
pretty much out of the question in my experience).

Another (slightly off-topic) project I daydream of is standalone 8 bit
synth modules programed in arduino and running on ATtiny 8 CPUs
(system on a chip like arduino's atmega8, runs the same compiled code,
but much smaller and lower power). At $1 a so each in bulk you could
easily have a dedicated CPU per oscillator on a reasonable budget, as
long as you are OK with 8 bit sound.

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Anthony Palomba  wrote:
> Hey Jacob,
>
> A csound eurorack module sounds like a fascinating idea. How do
> you envision it working in a performance setup? I assume the real
> benefit would be having a csound eurorack module that interacts with
> other eurorack modules.
>
> I like the thought of having a Moog Minitaur like device with csound
> running in it.
>
>
>
> Anthony
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Jacob Joaquin 
> wrote:
>>
>> I was just doing some research into the Raspberry Pi and the BeagleBone,
>> as I'm looking to build a Csound-based eurorack module for personal use.
>> Stumbled across a video which demonstrates Csound on the BeagleBoard using
>> Kim Cascone's BlueCube as one of the examples. It seems to do okay, but
>> definitely runs into some buffer underrun issues. Still think it'll be
>> workable solution, though.
>>
>> Thought some of you might find the video interesting.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbSu7vOgT0&feature=player_embedded#!
>>
>> Best,
>> Jake
>
>

or, come to think of it, you could do 16 bit sound in 8 bit instructions

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Justin Smith  wrote:
> I have a beagle bone (which is less powerful CPU wise than a
> beagleboard and unlike the beagleboard has no on-board sound card),
> and intend to get csound installed on it and working with a USB sound
> card. The specs are not that much worse than the N900 I was using
> until its recent demise (which could do fm and live IO with some
> reverb with no problem, or dynamically resynthesize a pvoc file with a
> gui controlling position / pitch, but granulation or pvs stuff was
> pretty much out of the question in my experience).
>
> Another (slightly off-topic) project I daydream of is standalone 8 bit
> synth modules programed in arduino and running on ATtiny 8 CPUs
> (system on a chip like arduino's atmega8, runs the same compiled code,
> but much smaller and lower power). At $1 a so each in bulk you could
> easily have a dedicated CPU per oscillator on a reasonable budget, as
> long as you are OK with 8 bit sound.
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Anthony Palomba  wrote:
>> Hey Jacob,
>>
>> A csound eurorack module sounds like a fascinating idea. How do
>> you envision it working in a performance setup? I assume the real
>> benefit would be having a csound eurorack module that interacts with
>> other eurorack modules.
>>
>> I like the thought of having a Moog Minitaur like device with csound
>> running in it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Jacob Joaquin 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was just doing some research into the Raspberry Pi and the BeagleBone,
>>> as I'm looking to build a Csound-based eurorack module for personal use.
>>> Stumbled across a video which demonstrates Csound on the BeagleBoard using
>>> Kim Cascone's BlueCube as one of the examples. It seems to do okay, but
>>> definitely runs into some buffer underrun issues. Still think it'll be
>>> workable solution, though.
>>>
>>> Thought some of you might find the video interesting.
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbSu7vOgT0&feature=player_embedded#!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jake
>>
>>

I was just doing some research into the Raspberry Pi and the BeagleBone, as I'm looking to build a Csound-based eurorack module for personal use. Stumbled across a video which demonstrates Csound on the BeagleBoard using Kim Cascone's BlueCube as one of the examples. It seems to do okay, but definitely runs into some buffer underrun issues. Still think it'll be workable solution, though.

Thought some of you might find the video interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbSu7vOgT0&feature=player_embedded#!

Best,

Jake