thetechnobear / belapatches

a collection of patches for BELA by bela.io

Bela Patch

a collection of patches for the various variations of BELA by bela.io - https://bela.io

Bela is a 'addon' board for the BeagleBone Black/Green, providing low latency audio, analog and digial i/o

BELA - just the plain Bela board SALT - a flexible Eurorack module made in collaboration with Rebel Technology PEPPER - a flexible DIY Eurorack module this is passive so much cheaper than SALT but with limitations

These are patches Ive made for my own use, or may have adapted from elsewhere note: they may or may not be up to date, or working ;)

initial setup

clone the repository into a directory

mkdir ~/projects
cd ~/projects
git clone https:https:/github.com/thetechnobear/BelaPatches
cd BelaPatches

Some patches (particulary my C++ ones), will need to have external libraries built, so we need to pull the external submodules

git submodule update --init --recursive 

now install some dev libraries we will need to build

apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev
apt-get install libasound2-dev
apt-get install libcairo2-dev 

now we can build requisite libraries etc

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBELA=1 ..
make

all these projects are configured to expect a symbolic link to the external projects in the projects directory to achieve this

cd ~/Bela/projects
ln -s ~/projects/BelaPatches/external .
ln -s ~/projects/BelaPatches/build/release/lib .

now bela projects are able to use these libraries

note: if you want to distribute as standalone, you will need to copy libraries and alter the settings.json for the bela project, since they refer to the build area