piStudio, A Hardware Recording Studio Using Raspberry Pi, Inspired By Tascam Porta 02 Four-Track

pinknoise · 2016-03-26T13:59:10.875Z

piStudio, A Hardware Recording Studio Using Raspberry Pi, Inspired By Tascam Porta 02 Four-Track
Rounik Sethi on Mar 26, 2016 in News 0 comments

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piStudio brings back the 90s low-fi recording four-track! Inspired by old Tascam four-tracks and powered by the incredibly cool Raspberry Pi ZERO. It’s full of excellent features.
Despite the flexible and powerful recording solutions we have today like Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase, etc, some of us still enjoy simpler, more tactile ways to record and produce music. Much like with the old Tascam 4-track PortaStudios.

piStudio
Hardware like the Tascam MiniStudio Porta 02, which inspired this project, was extremely accessible and limited. But, sometimes it’s within strict limitations that musicians and producers enjoy their more creative moments.

The availability / lack of inexpensive hardware recording equipment led Daniel Frausto to create piStudio which is designed to “bring back the old days of the true portable studio”. It’s powered by the Raspberry Pi ZERO and will dispense with some of the analog nature of the original Tascam’s of course. Instead of recording to cassette tapes files will be stored on a external SATA drive. You can also connect an LCD screen via HDMI.

Rear view of the piStudio
Other notable features for Pi Studio are it’s a four-track machine with four faders, balance, EQ and XLR inputs. The chip being used is 24-bit, 216kHz.

Powered by a Raspberry Pi ZERO.
While this project will probably be more expensive and time-consuming than going out and buying a portable hardware recorder it just shows what can be done with some time, an idea and a Raspberry Pi.

Via: Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2016/03/13/a-pi-powered-recording-studio/

Web: https://hackaday.io/project/9530-pistudio

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piStudio, A Hardware Recording Studio Powered By Raspberry Pi

piStudio brings back the 90s low-fi recording four-track! Inspired by old Tascam four-tracks and powered by the incredibly cool Raspberry Pi ZERO. It's full of

vtanger · 2016-03-27T08:34:34.542Z

Leider geht beim Pi0 alles (wie auch beim Original-Pi, der er intern weitgehend ist - minus ein paar Anschlüsse) alles über den einen USB-Port. Audio wie auch der geplante SATA (warum eigentlich SATA, warum dann nicht direkt auf einen USB-Flash Stick?).

Und leider kennt man die Timing-Probleme beim RasPi schon länger. Daher ist Sebastian mit seinem Studio-Link auf den BeagleBone umgestiegen, und ich experimetiere mit meiner IBR-Box gerade mit den Odroid-Kistchen - die RasPis haben für Audio ein zu laschens Timing und es kommt bei Aufnahmen zu Knacksern…