Seen this yet?

[Marc Nostromo [M-.-n]]

There was a recent article in CDM covering android's new audio subsystem
that should bring it somehow to about 10msec.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2012/07/android-audio-improvements-will-appear-first-on-galaxy-nexus/

It's still far from the 16 samples I can get on a beagleboard ;)

http://www.marc-nostromo.com/?p=57

2012/7/5 Tony Hardie-Bick <tony at entity.net>

> okay i read up a bit more and i understand there's a gap in the market
>
> it's a cheeseball chip on an android pad, so, it's not interesting for
> sonic innovation, but it's not aimed at that.
>
> the problem is that android, due to variability in the platform hardware,
> and various os-level design issues, prevents apps from designing-in a
> reliable low audio latency
>
> by adding this chip from yamaha, they get to do audio on separate
> hardware, presumably at <10mS latency. so, there's some kind of a market
> for that.
>
> whether addressable by something like this... well, that's a different
> issue.
>
> the choice here is to go with android, probably cos they liked the GUI,
> and one can make an argument (presumably tagged on after the initial idea)
> that there's some reason why network/social integration is valuable in the
> product (most will already have a phone for these things, so i'm not
> convinced).
>
> it's ironic that the arm could itself run audio, leveraging off the huge
> amount of audio software that already exists.
>
> albeit not with the 256-voice polyphony that this device no doubt offers ;)
>
> so you never know
>
> Tony (HB)
>
>
> On 05/07/12 10:47, Jay Vaughan wrote:
>
>> -Noisy keyboard: Yes, hope that gets fixed in the production hardware
>> (this
>> is obviously not production hardware, at least one hopes it isn't..) -
>> Changing knobs - definitely needs a GUI redesign to make the touch screen
>> more useable.  Same problem with all soft-synths: knobs don't make sense
>> here. - Cool visualization - yeah, not terribly exciting, but then again
>> the
>> direction that this first step indicates could be *quite* exciting.
>>
>> Anyway, I hope we find more about it soon ..
>>
>> j.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Marc Nostromo [M-.-n]
>> <marc.nostromo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> - Extremely noisey keyboard - Look at him trying 3 times to change the
>>> value of a knob and it just doesn't work - The 'cool visualisation' is a
>>> 10
>>> year old demo from nVidia on fluid simulation
>>>
>>> Sound like a lot of BS to me ;)
>>>
>>> It's funny that when everybody wants to touch a screen surface I want to
>>> touch knobs and sliders ;)
>>>
>>> 2012/7/5 Jay Vaughan <ibisum at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  that plus the fact that the number of developers is equal to or less
>>>>> than the number of units made, makes it a strange proposition.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gotta boot the project somehow.  I'm definitely highly interested in
>>>> this
>>>> device .. its a little bit too close to what I thought Access should
>>>> have
>>>> been building in 2002.  So I'll definitely turn my hairy eyeball on this
>>>> machine and try to get more technical details ..
>>>>
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