Zrna Akso - is anyone using this hardware to run axoloti?

#1

Hello community,

Has anyone tried this hardware? It seems like a more powerful axoloti.

https://zrna.org/akso

#2

Yes that's what it is, a more powerful version of Axoloti. About 4 times as powerful on most parameters.

It's developed by @urklang

There is a thread about it here:

#3

It should be mentioned that shipping hasn’t started yet.

#4

Yes ! Im also waiting for it to ship :slight_smile:

#5

A friend of mine ordered one for me. Still waiting for it to start its long journey...

In the meanwhile i will experiment with the Daisy seed board...

#6

Yay :slight_smile:

I also got a Daisy Seed board here :slight_smile:

Pretty cool thing, but a bit harder to program, for me at least. I don't know a lot about memory allocation and things like that, for reverbs and delays, for example. Waiting eagerly for some time so I can try out the PD > Daisy script. I am kind of depending on that, since I still lack some knowledge on the c++ regarding more advanced stuff.

And just ordered a Blokas PiSound to finally finish my Pi/Pd box :slight_smile:

So lots of project here and also working full time atm. 24 hours a day is just not enough :wink:

Might have to get an Akso next month, hehe :wink:

#7

I am also in the club. Ordered a Daisy Pod in July. "Only" took 4 weeks to travel from California to Frankfurt (I don't know why it has been in Chicago for 3.5 weeks, but I guess it was because of the pandemic). Then within one day it arrived in Vienna. There it has been at the customes office ("Zoll") for 10 days (I guess the officers there have never seen a Daisy Pod). After paying ~25 EUR customs tax it was finally mine. Now I built a wooden enclosure and connected an OLED via SPI, yeah! Communication with the electro-smiths was nice, also is their forum. Daisy and libdaisy make fun (I am used to C++, though it has been a while).
After this success (good training for patience) I ordered an AKSO. I guess it arrives "sooner" :wink:
We will see...it is a pity summer is over and so is my free time.

#8

My Akso arrived today.

#9

is there somewhere a simple answer to this ? :
how many pots & switches you can connect directly to the akso board ?
i couldnt find the info..

thank you !!

#10

Im a bit concerned . I payed in July or so . Still waiting for it , apparently customs or somthing , the package is in Frankfurt forever ever since . Comunication with the maker isnt best also , last mail he sent me was 1 month ago and since then silence ....
I would love to hear if other folks experienced this and if they are running theirs at all , cause even the forum is not so crowded

#11

Hello sorry for your trouble with this,

I ordered mine on like you in July and received the unit in the UK on the 8th of October, I had to pay a customs charge to the royal mail they informed me via a card through my door and I was able to pay the charge and arrange delivery online.

users ivofx, hwk, Blindsmyth and Rbrt I believe are all based in Germany and received their units, all had some issues with Frankfurt. To put your mind at ease units have been shipped out and received.

The others received a notification of a customs charge similar to the one I received, I know that you have not. Is there a way of contacting the customs agency in Frankfurt directly? Or maybe send a message to any of these users asking them to explain if the had to do anything extra.......

hope it arrives on your doorstep this morning.
He is just one man and yours appears to be an issue in transit in that the goods have been sent, just not received, but counter to that he has issued a refund to someone in the past 8 days after they posted on the forum asking for one and has been quite transparent that circumstances, change of city and job during Covid have impacted Akso

#12

Hey my two boards ordered in july didn't arrive either. One bounced back because it had arrived when I visited my parents, when I saw the notification that it was at a post office it was already too late and the sent it back. The other one ist stuck in Frankfurt since 31.october...

But as far as I know the software is still buggy and many patches won't work. I checked with @rbrt who has received his board already to see what is not working. In this state it's basically useless for me, so it doesn't matter to much if it's lying around here ot at customs.

EDIT: sorry I hope this doesn't sound too cynical here. I do respect nics work here and understand it's not his main source of income but I think shipment could be improved drastically here, waiting 6months for this thing and then not having sufficient tracking is really bad.

#13

...I ordered end of july (I guess) and got my board end of October (I guess)
the board works fine (get's a bit warm,actually, but not hot or anything)

there are issues, yes..some are described here: https://github.com/zrna-research/akso/issues
nothing that couldn't be fixed, but @urklang would be the one to
do this most efficiently I think...but AFAIK he's all wound up at the time being
in trying to organize / get along...which I can perfectly understand

cheers R

#14

My mistake Simon, I thought you had received your board sorry for the misinformation

#15

I told him that was fine months ago since we dont get many gigs during covid times.
But this feels a bit too much , since july waiting .
At the moment and hearing from others I dont feel confident anymore to jump to akso, not with this overview.
Anyhow The last email he sent me is more than 1 month ago . I understand and respect Nic , but answeing emails is not going to make you sweat, so even in this point of communication there is some faults :frowning:

#16

Finally got my board this last week. In the meantime my main Mac has become my DTK (Apple Silicon) so I think I'll have to use an older Mac as my Axoloti machine and to experiment with this new board.

I did get the board connected on Apple Silicon, but the patch won't compile just yet. The install was very easy and nice as everything is packaged together, a very nice experience for initial setup.

#17

Guess we'll have to wait for Axoloti to run on Apple Silicon. Not sure if the compilation toolchain is already ported to support the new processors, and if any changes to the Axoloti patcher are needed.

#18

I don't have any Macs with Apple Silicon, but Rosetta 2 should be able to run Intel apps. I'd look a bit closer at WHY the patch won't compile.

#19

Just tried again with Axoloti 2. As a Rosetta app its complaining on startup about a problem with the toolchain. I guess that gnu C++ isn't yet ported to Apple Silicon? Seems surprising, but that looks like the problem.

On a new M1 Mac mini now.

error: compiler arm-none-eabi-g++ not found in path=/Applications/Axoloti.app/Contents/Java/platform_osx/bin:/Applications/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update/bin:/bin:, not installed?

It looks like it may be mid 2021 before this is fully ported to Mac M1.

#20

I think that's a different issue, referring to running GCC to actually produce binaries that execute on the Apple silicon.

That's not what's needed here. What's needed is a compiler which runs on the Mac (possibly under Rosetta) and produces binaries which run on the STM32 (ARM) microcontroller.

  • I wouldn't even try running Axoloti 2 - it's old and broken.
  • I would verify that the Axoloti toolchain is installed in the correct location, and that it can actually run.