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Pure Data on Rockbox

This project is part of the Google Summer of Code 2009 project.

Project name Student Mentor Backup mentor
Make Rockbox a musical instrument Wincent Balin (wincent) Peter D'Hoye (petur) Dominik Wenger (domonoky)

This is a Google Summer of Code 2009 project with the goal to make Rockbox a musical instrument. To do so, the sound processing framework Pure Data will be integrated into Rockbox in the likeness of http://www.ipodlinux.org/wiki/PdPod .

Those who do not know what Pure Data is are advised to look at the book "Designing Sound" (http://aspress.co.uk/ds/), both at the abridged text and at the sample chapters. Another good Pure Data tutorial can be found at http://www.pd-tutorial.com/ .

To test the abilities of PDBox get the file PureData.zip from http://www.ipodlinux.org/wiki/PdPod . If http://www.ipodlinux.org/ does not work, you might want to get this file from this page (seel below).

There is a repository with updated designs at http://pd-anywhere.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pd-anywhere/branches/reware-exhibition/ipod/PureData/ . Beware of designs Daft_Widget.pd and dj_scratch.pd ; they contain errors which make pdbox hang! Alternatively you might use the archive PureData2.zip, attached below.

Project Plan

Part 1 (50%): Port PDa (Pure Data anywhere, the Pure Data fixed point fork) to Rockbox
  • Port network communication: done (actually, it was replaced by a small custom message passing interface)
  • Port memory allocator: done (using dbestfit library)
  • Porting file-for-file, looking at missing symbols in the plug-in: done
  • Port audio: done (output only)
  • Port file operations: done
  • Port scheduler: done
Part 2 (50%): Port PDPod GUI to Rockbox
  • Sending statements to Pure Data core (pauses and un-pauses were used as an example): done
  • Custom GUI: done
  • Standard GUI: done
Known problems
  • GUI does not take backdrops (bitmap backgrounds) into account, leading to an unreadable text/background combination -- PeterDHoye - 04 Aug 2009 - fixed
  • PD designs which are based on audio files instead of (for lack of a better term) oscillators may have difficulties while loading - fixed
  • Sound input capability is lacking

Preliminary information

I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
PureData.zipzip PureData.zip manage 1788.6 K 12 Jul 2009 - 19:52 WincentBalin Archive of files for Pure Data with pdPod GUI
PureData2.zipzip PureData2.zip manage 5768.1 K 03 Jun 2010 - 00:51 WincentBalin Archive of Pure Data patches from http://pd-anywhere.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pd-anywhere/branches/reware-exhibition/ipod/PureData/ (without dangerous patches)
r32 - 02 Apr 2021 - 20:46:07 - UnknownUser

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