Box Of Stops is designed to run on the Raspberry Pi, which is a great size for plugging into a musical keyboard, and comes with everything Box Of Stops needs built-in.
It is also possible to install Box Of Stops on Windows though. It doesn't run quite as well on Windows (see the topic on [[Latency]]), but is still quite playable. Certainly good enough to give it a test drive.
Because Windows doesn't come with everything Box Of Stops needs built in, you will need to install a few other dependencies first:
* [[#Downloading Box Of Stops|Box Of Stops itself]]
And then finish the [[#Setting up|set up]].
Box Of Stops is reasonably un-fussy about the version of Windows you use - Vista or later is fine. And it's likely your Windows install has at least the spec of a Raspberry Pi.
== Installing Java ==
== Installing Python ==
Similarly, if you don't already have Python, this can be downloaded for Windows from [https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ here]. The latest version of Python 3 is recommended. Typically it is the "Windows x86-64 executable installer" you need, unless you have an a 32 bit environment.
Please ensure when installing Python that you tick the option to add it to your PATH: