Orac - Pisound - Raspberry Pi - Patchbox - first patch and jam

This is an improvised jam on a raspberry Pi single board computer equipped with a pisound soundcard, which gives you high quality, low latency stereo audio I/O alongside with din MIDI I/O on this inexpensive and open platform. The operating system is called patchbox, and is a modified raspbian distro optimized for audio made by the fine folks at blokas, the makers of pisound. Recently Mark Harris (aka the technobear) released ORAC 2.0 beta, a puredata based modular solution initially intended for the Critter&Guitari organelle, an interesting musical instrument which is based also on puredata. Now ORAC is available for other platforms too, including the raspberry Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eunF5yBVrkM It's a phenomenal software that allows you to patch very easily a series of modules to create your custom instrument which you can then play headless with the help of some MIDI controllers. This is my first patch with it and it has three chains (in parallel): * an electric piano called 'Rhodey' that goes into a tremolo and then a delay that I play with the right keyboard (m-audio keystation mini 32) * a polyrythmic sequencer called 'PolyBeats' that plays a sampler loaded with some drum samples, and then goes into a panning LFO * an arpeggiator that plays a simple synth called Basic Poly which then goes into an effect called Clouds (ported from mutable instruments eurorack modules by thetechnobear too) Many of the parameters of all these modules have been mapped to the Novation Remote Zero SL controller and are used for the performance. Enjoy!