Christopher Obbard

About

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I am the Chief Engineer at 64 Studio Ltd where we develop software and hardware solutions for Embedded platforms, normally with an audio or multimedia focus. We have worked on some very interesting and varied developments since I started in 2010.

Most of the time I can be found in a dark room poking at the Linux Kernel trying to get an extra few bogomips of performance, crafting the final lines of an ALSA Soundcard driver, porting software to a newly released platform, laying out a circuit board or running hardware verification tests.

Linux Format 64 Studio Interview

Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Back in October 2018 at the Embedded Linux Conference in Edinburgh, Jonni Bidwell caught up with Daniel James and myself about some of the work we’ve been doing at 64 Studio recently.

I’m very proud to have my mug on the cover and six full-color feature pages!

Here’s a link to the article.

Reproduced with permission from www.linuxformat.com

Midi CC Keyboard

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

So lots of software uses Midi CC Messages to control various software knobs (i.e gain, balance…) and due to my hardware Midi keyboards only having a couple of knobs, I searched around for a simple bit of software to emulate lots of knobs: it didn’t seem exist after 3 minutes of searching. So I relaxed for an hour or so and wrote my own.

Here’s the end result: https://github.com/obbardc/midi-cc-keyboard