Omenie developer Phil Atkin shared his rendition of the synth pop classic, Popcorn, created on a Raspberry Pi – the $35 credit-card sized education computer.
May I present to you, one Raspberry Pi Model B, one $5 USB MIDI interface, one £20(ish) Behringer USB audio interface, 7 Virtual Analog synthesizers, 9 notes of polyphony, a bunch (4 or 5?) stereo delays, a global reverb straight out of the upcoming Jordantron, and ladies and gentlemen – Popcorn!
Recorded straight out of the phono outputs of the Behringer into my Mac, no processing, exactly the bytes emitted by the Pi.
Atkin has been documenting his work developing a powerful music synthesizer for the Raspberry Pi at his Raspberry Pi Synthesizer blog. You can learn more about the Raspberry Pi at the project site.
Sounds delicious
I pop by the site from time to time to see what’s happening in the world if Piana. It does seem like an incredibly involved development process. When it is finished, it will be a remarkable synth, I’m sure.
His process has been interrupted by work on other apps like the M3000 (Melotron emulator). Glad to hear it being teased. It’s a good sign.
Nice !!! …..please next time do Gershwin on a blue raspberry
It’s okay – but where’s the “pop”? Give me the Hot Butter version any day.
again, we turn to the past to find our future…. that’s not the spirit in which the original was made. There’s so much rearview mirror gazing, is anyone watching the road ahead?
yeah, I agree with the guy who thumbs downed that stupid comment. Popcorn and various remakes of this on various reissues of 70’s style instruments is clearly the way forward. I think he and his idiotic comments should be banned.
It would seem you’re the one fixated on the past, considering the song is just a way of demonstrating the the pi’s versatility and technical capabilities. Having that many modeling synths inside a single machine is something laptops do.
-Except a laptop costs Hundreds, this costs $35 and fits in your pocket.
Check the door brah, I think the futures knocking.