On Tuesday 11 November 2003 16.43, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:54:43AM -0800, Thomas Webb wrote: > > It's just a frikkan computer! I'm sorry, but I'm not a > > big fan of these synth workstations. They are just > > crippled computers and in this case, withold the > > cripple (but double the money). You can just make one > > of those.. wouldn't be as pretty and you'd have to > > muck w/ RT-linux. > > why RT-linux?
Why not? If it's a turnkey system, the issues with having users install such kernel extensions on their own goes away, and cutting the worst case latencies from around 1 ms to less than 10 �s does help performance. You can use more CPU at lower latencies without risking drop-outs. Granted, DSP code for general purpose CPUs tends to have rather variable execution speed, but that's just another factor. Eliminating the scheduling latency part from the equation is still an improvement. //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .- Audiality -----------------------------------------------. | Free/Open Source audio engine for games and multimedia. | | MIDI, modular synthesis, real time effects, scripting,... | `-----------------------------------> http://audiality.org -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se ---
