Translations:Real-time sonification/5/en

To create a real-time sonification device it is useful to use a microcontroller. These are like "small and simple computers" with a single processor unit. They are not computers though. Their architecture is much simpler and they cannot run an operating system. Still, they can be programmed to execute a single program at a time, which can perform multiple tasks but sequentially, according to the order of the instructions listed in the program. There are several types of microcontrollers, the Arduino (arduino.cc) being the most popular.