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Bought another Android TV stick based on the RK3066 SoC, the MK808 which is as far as I’ve understood kind of the default board to hack on.


MK808 Android TV stick

Also bought a BeagleBone Black development board. Why? Because apparently JACK runs well on it, also with USB interfaces (no need for the ALSA softmode option!) so I assume the USB implementation is better than those of the Raspberry Pi and the RK3066 based board I currently own. And I could get it cheaper over here in The Netherlands than other viable alternatives like the pcDuino or Cubieboard, also because of a coupon code I found on tweakers.net so I got a price reduction of a few Euros. Another reason why I bought it are the so-called capes that are available for this board. These capes are basically add-on boards and the cape that has my most attention is the audio cape. I’m thinking about buying that specific cape, solder two Neutriks on the audio in and out and turn it into the easiest DIY guitar effect box ever. Of course with guitarix loaded on it, the devs have done an incredible amount of work recently to get guitarix running flawlessly and painlessly on ARM dev boards like the BeagleBone Black.


BeagleBone Black


BeagleBone Audio Cape

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Binnenkort phasex-dev Milestone 2?

Was benieuwd of er nog wat activiteit te bespeuren viel bij de PHASEX fork op github. PHASEX is een fijne, bruikbare softsynth waarvan de oorspronkelijke code en site echter van de aardbodem verdwenen zijn. Maar gelukkig is er de PHASEX Development Branch dus de code is niet verloren gegaan en als ik deze reply mag geloven zit er dus zelfs een nieuwe release aan te komen, Milestone 2!

Milestone 2: More bugfixes. Better engine loop and JACK thread sync.
LFO, delay and chorus clock-sync.

Zelf draai ik de laatste git checkout maar die is alweer van december vorig jaar en de JACK sync en clock sync daarvan zijn nog niet optimaal. Nu maar hopen dat Milestone 2 snel gereleased wordt en dat de synchronisatie functionaliteit beter werkt met deze versie. Presets met arpeggios bijvoorbeeld lopen nu nog na verloop van tijd hopeloos uit sync.

Binnenkort phasex-dev Milestone 2?