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sandneil wrote:you are right actually, what i remember i think is that it had a good gpu but none of the linux distros you could get for it were programmed to make use of it! maybe that has changed by now
in any case i am not sure if it is as bad as you make it out to be! it is just different to those things... running a web server or a c compiler or an irc bouncer or schism tracker would probably be a massive pain on an ipad (and they cost £400) and all those things are easy to do on a raspberry pi (which costs £40)
And Android devices fall in price every day. Emulation puts more musical power in your pocket than any piece of gear available. Those other things are fine, and a Pi will do them, but music was the topic.
It's the CPU, not likely to be the GPU. The Pi actually has a pretty capable GPU, it's CPU is dire though. I've found Pis to be all but unusable for anything that you actually want to do with them.. You're better off with an Android or iOS device these days.
I don't know of it's different in new versions, but 2.3 the sequencer only plays in 4/4 time regardless of the steps in the pattern. Thus, it repeats the pattern until it has hit the end of it's 4 beats then moves to the next one. Even 6/8 is a huge pain in the ass since everything has to be written to offset that quirk (tripling the length of even simple patterns).
I wish more Android devices came with hardware keyboards and/or emulator devs cared more about audio performance. My phone is so close to being the ultimate chip composer. Will be trying this out soon.
Is this too tacky? I think probably. Rigging a phone clip to something like this shouldn't be too difficult though.
http://www.chinabootik.com/tablets/396-cvpt-a163.html
How do we feel about MML export and/or import? If the instrument parameters can already be copied to the clipboard, it's not a stretch to copy them to an instruments include file then copy the notes/effects separated by channel. You'll need a moderately rigid structure to allow importing, but it's not too difficult to clean up the code on the user end. Would allow collaboration between artists who do and do not use MML.
I'm still interested in the Librettos if they are available.
I don't know what these are worth, but I'm interested. I don't like a lot of the changes in the latest versions of NL. I'm still using the 2.3 cart I bought at Blipfest '09.
There's the new Humming Board, it may be powerful enough to accomplish this goal. It's basically a Pi with a 1GHz processor and a gig of RAM.
I was working on exactly this. Having a ton of emulators and music apps available in a handheld form factor is definitely appealing. The Pi is just not terribly joyful to use. I had more fun with it than any piece of hardware I had bought all year, but actually using it was usually a pain. I've since returned all my Pi parts.
I'm soldering a USB controller to my Raspberry Pi and creating my own Shield. It already has LGPT, a slew of great emulators, and Limelight to simulate most of what the Shield already is.
Well on the Android roadmap there is a plan to fix up the Go language and replace the Java core with it. I still doubt we're going to see the sort of crazy developments for Android that iOS has. The medical capabilities of my iPad blow my mind regularly.
Im pretty sure they are already in the wild. People who got invites, I believe, have them already. It's a company with a reputation and I find it hard to believe that anything short of the next Nexus will offer the price to performance ratio of the 1+1.
It's from Oppo. They are a very well reputed manufacturer. The phone exists, people have it. I don't believe they take your money until they are shipping your unit.
It's a closed preorder. I believe you will also get it early. Closer to a beta program. The phone has been delayed due to higher than anticipated demand and software issues. Invites are ramping up as they approach a shipping date, though.
The OnePlus One is a Nexus-killer smartphone. Strictly better specs compared to the Nexus at a cheaper (unlocked) price point. It's slated to come out in Q3, but invites periodically roll out to people in advance. For the next 3 days they are giving away 2500 invites. My boss and I both really want one.
Sign up here for entry.
I figure this can be a thread discussing the 1+1 and maybe swap some invites otherwise. Anyone have this glorious piece of tech?
Interested in any trades? I'm VERY into those Librettos.
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