ximo roca
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these two also work very well out of the box and have phono preamps:
http://www.americandj.eu/es/audio-genie-ii.html
http://miditech.de/userfiles/site_Downloads_manuals_phonoface/manual-phonoface-english.pdf
they might be hard to get a a hold of though, as at least the miditech in not in production.
but really any usb class compliant soundcard will work as long as it has line in. if it has phono prems built in great if not you can always use either an external one or just the software preamp built in xwax ( responsiveness with this might not be as good)
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you mean for windows right?
linux is full of arm ports, just check any distro for the arm packages
so is mac because they have their ipads and iphones.
windows doesnt probably just because atm its not worth the investment for them since they really dont have much going in the arm world .
I wont get into if its porting or just rewritting though as the end result is what matters, getting the same software cross platform.
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ah that version 2 makes more sense, i always thought that it was sort of pointless without a portable screen.
Yeah, there really is no translator for russian, it is english words, but it makes literally no sense at all.
I remember his v1, and how many people tried to understand his documentation, literally nobody ever built one, there was no way whatsoever.
I would love it if somebody could translate it though.
yeah i took a peek at them... and nothing... to be honest i probably would have missed most of it even if it was en english.
Well FPGA are gorgeous in options and difficult. I see piDeck more suitable for non techies as they want to make it "plug'n play".
The documentation of this one seems correct (russian aside) and maybe Rasteri could use some parts to cdx mod (if you check the diagram above it seem quite similar to the research made by him) so the problem will be more related to the code side which is the part I haven't see yet. Anyways some parts are recycable for other projects or could been take as inspiration.
I expect more news on this since it seems a nice update from v1 with the screen addon but I still prefer the raspi route without doubt.
ive just recently started hearing about those fpgas and am interested in them, i just dont know anything about how to use them.... sounds hard, and probably something i have to invest too much time, that i dont have, into.
pideck is sure more plug n play friendly, if you get the right hardware coz getting some soundcards touch drivers to work can also be hell. I personally think a pure hardware solution should be more reliable, its just harder to implement and maybe even not that much better to justify going that route for its complexity, compared to what soc solution can offer right away.
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It is an embed PC, you can go and speak to one of the demo guys from MS over at the GS forum, that prototype is on somebodies desk somewhere apparently, never gets used, and the new versions are nothing like it whatsoever (The prototype had an intel NUC under the desk, this is all confirmed by MS staff who did the demo)
The MPC live has a single board system inside, that yeah you are right, is pretty close to a tablet, but would be a powerful as fuck tablet hahaha, but is Arm and not x86, so the full software unless ported to ARM is not going to be on it.
Buuuuuuuut, they have rewritten it entirely for v2 a wee birdy tells me, so it is possible that it was completely rewritten to be platform agnostic, so yeah some variant of the v2 software may well be running on the ARM.
well software is being ported constantly to arm, that shouldnt be an issue. The issue would be if the cost to port it is worth it compared to the cost reduction of moving to arm hardware . lt probably is imho, as arm socs are quite cheaper than intel ones.
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Modding relatively expensive gear like the Technics is a fools economy, these CDX are pennies on the pound for now because of a shitty $2 cable inside, and the fact that CD is about as popular as herpes.
I would not mod that Technics if you paid me to do so, in ten years when the modded one is worth $10 and an original is worth $1000, you will be kicking yourself.
Some stuff is collectable, some stuff is Rasteri-able hahahahaha
i mean the technics cds. they are pretty cheap too second hand, i got my pair for 200€. I actually just wanted to mod one and leave the other as is as i like the modded platter without the shitty screen in the middle.
Pairs of CDX are regularly around for £50 or less broken, and they are not going up in price yet, because they have a reputation for breaking (Keep in mind here, the only thing that breaks is being entirely removed by this project)
Technics will always appreciate in price (Fanboys and all that)
oh that cheap?... ill look around and inform myself then
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It was done in low cost (arduino instead pi and just midi controller) and the code was adapted from Rasteri's project
http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=scratchcontroller
So look at other threads I'm posting (and also inside the pt01 modding topic) to see work done. Also we could open a new one about digital encoders even there is a work with ttm1, ir mouse and even audio2schmidtt trigger work inside some of them.
I bring some info related to the standalone option due it's the path pursued by Rasteri and support by most of us. CDX was cappable of doing most of the new PiDeck as projects or even faster (texas instruments dsp inside) but until now nobody look deep inside (thanks Rasteri once again). Said that it could be possible to attach the internal digital encoder to rpi as it was done with arduino in the past.
For the sldz mod the modder has done a great work and I suppose rpi mod will be in their roadmap as soon he will be aware. Someone know about the guy directly? I remember he is from uk too?
Ill take a look, i like all this this stuff.
about the arduino, teensy is enough, its another addition i had in mind for my v2 dvs. get a tinsy in there to get some fake dicers and get cue points in there.
stuart you mean, yeah he is uk ive been in touch with him to get the diy mod, dont know him directly though as im in spain
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Modding relatively expensive gear like the Technics is a fools economy, these CDX are pennies on the pound for now because of a shitty $2 cable inside, and the fact that CD is about as popular as herpes.
I would not mod that Technics if you paid me to do so, in ten years when the modded one is worth $10 and an original is worth $1000, you will be kicking yourself.
Some stuff is collectable, some stuff is Rasteri-able hahahahaha
i mean the technics cds. they are pretty cheap too second hand, i got my pair for 200€. I actually just wanted to mod one and leave the other as is as i like the modded platter without the shitty screen in the middle.
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very interesting thread!
love what your are doing, and hope ur succesfull at it.
I have a pair of sl-1200-dz i want to mod too. There is this platter mod diy kit as a starters and then the idea would be adding a rpi dvs inside. I unsure about that though since the screen has to be outside anyways, keeping the whole dvs sistem boxed in the screen would make it portable and interchangeable with other units.
best would be some bare metal programming, but im tottally clueless about that. But the technics should have some neat possibilities because of the way it tracks the relative position and the speed. Its a clear film attatched to the platter and a photosensor reading through it which determines the direction and speed of the playback, this means its basically relativemode timecode, if you can manage to see what sort of algorithm its using. Heck you could probably just connect those 3-4 pins into rpis gpio directly to be used as the "timecode".
If that was possible you could actually empty most of the cd inside and run the unit through software, or it could even make a reasonably easy way to mod any turntable with just that film a sensor and pi.
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Hi all,
I just joined this community to discuss about all these arm soc dvs setups starting to float around, Ive been around most of those discussions going on regardng xwax.
I built my system over a year and a half ago and have been using it since. My take was a bit different as I built a 2 deck setup and built a gpio based button + rotary encoder interface controller. The soc is inside the casing which has a 7" lcd i can hook up where needed, the only thing i kept external was the soundcard, and mostly so i could make the controller smaller.
I didnt document everything, but if you want to take a look.....
http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=10837
Ill update my thread with some of the missing info and if anybody wants to try something similar or you have any questions just ask....
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in relation to that last video.
I went ahead and tested doing a 3 deck setup on my new odroid c2.... and it actually could manage it, where previously my c1 and pi 2 couldnt as it was a constant stream of xruns (buffer underruns).