# Pisound (soundcard)

**URL:** <https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/pisound-soundcard/449>\
**Category:** Hardware\
**Created:** [February 4, 2017, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/pisound-soundcard/449 "2017-02-04T10:08:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![smespresati](https://discourse.zynthian.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@smespresati](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/smespresati)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/pisound-soundcard/449/1 "2017-02-04T10:08:15Z")

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Hi guys,

I’ve discovered this soundcard which seems very interesting for our Zynthian Box.

[http://blokas.io/](http://blokas.io/)

It has great features, including it’s capble to feed power to the rbpi in a safer way than the microusb used now. The cons is the use of GPIO pins.

What do you think about it?

Regards, Jose

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**Author:** ![C0d3man](https://discourse.zynthian.org/user_avatar/discourse.zynthian.org/c0d3man/32/9_2.png) [@C0d3man](https://discourse.zynthian.org/u/C0d3man)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/pisound-soundcard/449/2 "2017-02-04T14:46:14Z")

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Really nice one - but it breaks all currently available plans for cases 🙂

Also I think you need to build your own kernel for using this card. I hope the integration of the driver will not be so problematic.

Has anyone plans for buying one?

I hope HB will show us a new card with audio input and MIDI IO onboard soon…

Regards, Holger