[LAU] JACK on Pi... almost working

Will Godfrey willgodfrey at musically.me.uk
Fri Aug 1 06:09:00 UTC 2014


On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 07:42:06 +0200
Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:

> On 07/30/2014 11:01 AM, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> > use a Banana Pi, it is not nearly as crappy as Raspberry, much more powerfull (2 cores, 1 GHz, 1 GB), consumes less power and only a bit more expensive:
> > 
> > see here
> > http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-hardware-duel/
> > and here
> > http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-vs-a10-olinuxino-powering-and-sata-performance/
> > 
> > Gerhard
> 
> What I like about the RPi is that it is afaik still the cheapest board
> available. It also has a huge community and it's not being run by a
> company but a foundation with a non-profit goal.
> For real-time audio purposes it is certainly not the best choice, but
> then, what do you expect for that price? And what do you expect from a
> device that is made for educational purposes, not real-time,
> low-latency, pro audio?
> 
> Jeremy

Exactly!
This is something people seem to forget when they complain that it can't do
this, or that. They also forget that the founders sank their own personal money
into this project at the start, called on favours and twisted arms.

-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.


More information about the Linux-audio-user mailing list