Introduction

These pages will tell you more about Elk Audio OS and its licensing model.

• What is Elk Audio OS?
  • Why would you need Elk Audio OS?
  • What Can You Do With Elk?
  • Software Components Inside an Elk Product
  • Hardware Components (white)
  • Standard Linux Components (pink)
  • Elk Core Components (blue/orange)
  • Custom components for your product (green)
  • Try it yourself
• Elk Audio OS software licenses
  • Open-source license
  • Commercial license
• Supported Hardware architectures
  • Open-source version
  • Commercial version

Getting started

Are you anxious to just try things out before reading too much? Follow these simple getting started guides that cover the bare minimum that you will need to get some sounds.

• Running Elk on your computer
  • Running a plugin within the Sushi host
  • Where to go from here
• Getting started on Raspberry Pi 4
  • 1. Hardware setup
  • 2. Flashing the Elk operating system image to the SD card
  • 3. Power up, and next steps
• Run Elk on Boards
  • 1. Power it up, connect…
  • 2. Check audio hat
  • 3. And run Sushi
  • 4. Powering down
  • 5. Further steps