Raspberry Pi, Your Next $25 Computer Synth? First Hacks Appearing
Apple may have started the conversation about the “post-PC” age. But part of what this means is that a “computer” doesn’t necessarily have to be something costing hundreds of dollars, in a conventional desktop or laptop form factor. It could look more like the Raspberry Pi, at US$25 and squeezed into a tin of mints.
Suddenly, all those years of music software development are liberated from the big, pricey boxes on which we’ve run them all these years.
The Raspberry Pi Synthesizer blog documents a project dedicated to this particular device, with a clever UI and yes, even polyphony. There’s a terrific phase distortion demo above.
Eben Upton (PopTech Iceland) invented the Raspberry Pi, an ultra-low cost, credit card-sized computer. We’re releasing his PopTech Iceland talk soon, so stay tuned!
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