Id say its pretty similar to something like Bela, but based off the rPI rather than Beaglebone.
I guess you could claim similarity to Blokes PiSound, but Elk dev kit also has analog/digital IO, for creating an ‘instrument’… hence why i think more similar to Bela in terms of its goals/aims.
interesting point… they are claiming very low latency for a rPI.
they mention only rPI3/rPI3b, so no mention of rPI4 yet…
they have been showing eurorack modules with this inside it, and seems be a big part of their marketing (?)
VSTs are a bit of ‘marketing’ hype though, the interface has never been the issue… the issue is most VST developers aren’t producing version that run on ARM.
of course, thats changing a bit, due to iOS and perhaps Surface Pro X?!
I think previously Elk seemed to be marketing this at software companies who wanted to get easily into hardware… and specially Eurorack, as a kind of collaborative effort.
(I’ll have to go listen more carefully to their interviews at SB etc, as I previously glossed over them, as I didnt really understand what they were trying to achieve)
Im interested if the open source side is to appeal to open source developers (of synths etc) , and how that would play out… unlikely they have resources to ‘commission’ a commercial product, so will Elk produce a generic rPI eurorack module (like OWL/Bela Salt) or Desktop unit (MOD X) ?
or… is this rather aimed still at commercial entities, but showing they wont be tied in… and also to give them a way to experiment without a ‘contract’
and DIYers are just going to benefit as a side-effect?
