[LAU] Bela.io Was: Arch Wiki Professional_audio

[Bernardo Barros]

On 3/30/17 2:25 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> On 3/30/17 2:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> ...followed by an unrealistic claim about grotesque low latency.
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> Nowadays we even have arm-based things like http://bela.io/ that claims
> a latency `as low as 100us`. I'm sure they have a different (probably
> radical) technical solution for this. I wonder if normal x86 desktops
> could try a similar path.


According to their explanation, Bela.io achieves 100us latency it using 
Xenomai Linux kernel extensions and Programming Realtime Unit (PRU) to 
"write straight to the hardware". I wonder if that's an option for us.