On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, David McClanahan wrote:
> Who wants a DAW. I'd be happy a while with a stable minimoog emulator. The > Bristol has that and CS80(descendant of Yamaha's GX-1). It'd be cool just to > have a stable, glitch a day, analog-like synth such as these. As it is now Well, knock yourself out. Make us all proud! > with Ubuntu's Studio packages, Bristol locks up and then locks up the > operating system as does Zyn. FluidSynth works but will glitch quite a bit. As Torben said, Bristol and Zyn are well-known to be programmed in a manner that is NOT RT-safe... even if the OS is RT-safe. Meanwhile, lots of folks here are getting good performance with Linux audio without a ton of fiddling. > Well there are affordable synths(mostly wavetable ones) that don't appear > any more sophisticated hardware-wise than a PC. The PC may be such a Correct. And the entire OS and hardware is dedicated to the task of synth. And the hardware is generally application-specific. In fact, most of your hardware synths (whether analog or digital) are build around several application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) that act as co-processors for specific tasks (whether an oscillator or DSP). GNU/Linux, on the other hand, is a general-purpose, multi-tasking operating system for non-specific hardware. Most people coming to Linux are /not/ looking for an OS to turn their PC into a dedicated synth. So, duh, the -rt kernels for a desktop OS are not fit to be used for a safety-critical control system than needs HRT. For that sort of application, you need a customized version of Linux fine-tuned for the hardware. Why hasn't it happened, yet? Because most folks don't want this from Linux. And those that /do/ realize that it is hardware specific, and you /will/ have to roll your own OS (e.g. Korg, Harrison Consoles). You can't just download "KewlSynthOS" and run it, because there are several prerequisite hardware components to make the system run properly (whether off-the-shelf or home-grown). > Well I understand it from that perspective, but for a performance > instrument I would think no buffering would be the ideal. No buffering? We're talking about DIGITAL signal processing, right? Are you serious? -gabriel _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
