Developers
The MOD Duo as of today (release 1.1) runs Linux, version 3.4, with realtime patch.
JACK runs inside as audio backend, with mod-host loading each LV2 plugin as a new JACK client.
SSH is open by default, user 'root' and password 'mod'.
ALSA is used for the audio driver.
There's no X11 or any other kind of graphical interface. In fact, X11 libs are not even available.
The CPU is cortex A7, running at constant 912MHz.
The default compile flags are:
-mcpu=cortex-a7 -mtune=cortex-a7 -mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=hard -mvectorize-with-neon-quad
For aggressive optimization, add these:
-ffast-math -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -funsafe-loop-optimizations
Linux
Being Linux, developers have access to UNIX and POSIX APIs.
This means <unistd.h>, <pthread.h> and <stdlib.h> for example.
For more information see:
- https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
- http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/contents.html
JACK
Also known as Jack Audio Connection Kit, is the audio server running inside the MOD.
Developers can create JACK clients to interact with the audio data directly (without being managed by the plugin host).
For more information see:
- http://jackaudio.org/api/index.html
NOTE: As of release 1.1, MOD Duo uses JACK2.
LV2
Audio and MIDI plugins in MOD Duo are done in LV2 format.
For more information see:
- http://lv2plug.in/pages/developing.html
- http://moddevices.com/ns/mod/
- http://moddevices.com/ns/modgui/