Ableton LINK working on Raspberry pi server

Carlo Cattano's icon

After many trials to compile an unofficial port of ableton link for node.js in windows (npm package page)

I succesfully compiled it on my raspberry pi . The server is sincronized with LINK conections on the same network .

The problem of the client side still remains , since there is still no official way to implement LINK on the client side , but having a server synchronized is a start , and the deviation is quite noticeable but usable (needs more testing)

This opens up a huge potential .

Since Im using Tone.js to generate audio from the clients browser and having them synchronized between each other is the desired result . Then with Xebra.js we can comunicate directly to the clients , to trigger events in the html javascript code . Its being requested to use Xebra in the server side too , that could be better for performance when using many devices (since xebra/miraweb apparently supports till 64 users simultaneously )

I will keep you posted about my experiments !

Thomas's icon

excellent !
i hope to see your experiments

kcoul's icon

Yes me too. If it can really be up and running tightly, it will be possible to add all sorts of other things easily, like Arduino shields via Embedded Pi for analog sensors, which could then easily trigger actions on the beat

vichug's icon

hands up for sunvox as well :)

Carlo Cattano's icon