Heya,Well, I know almost nothing about DSP, but for sure, there is nothing to prevent any crash. My waldorf (Q) crashed once in a week (based on 56303, as most hardware VA theses days, including nova and virus). The thing is that generally, the system is a lot more simple on DSP based machines, so it is simpler to 'control everything'.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Sukandar Kartadinata ist working on something like this for some time
now. See http://glui.de/proj/gluiph.html for a general project
description (careful, psycedelic website!) and this PDF:
Interesting!
You could start with the PD for PDA project, which did this, but for
Pd 0.32. We're now at Pd 0.37 on general purpose computers.
I'll definitely not go for an ARM-powered expander!
Let me explain the facts, what I should have done from the beginning:
I'm planning to build a special controller based on the Theremin, with MIDI and/or CV outs. All material released for free: schematics, software...
The Theremin does have a trademark sound, even if most think it's a pure sine wave; but the aforementionned controller won't reduce itself to this: I'm more interested in its sensing technology.
Yet, I was wondering if an built-in expander was needed in addition, for live use; or if it could simply rely on a computer (my use). Hence my idea to use a kinda port of PureData to DSP so that the user could get the same sound either from hardware or software means, just by dumping patches; instead of having to write a separate pure C/C++ DSP source code with specific non-compliant patches, or even having to advice proprietary synth expander to the prospective users. But what I do not want to do is building myself another computer...
I thought DSP-powered expanders had one big advantage over PC-based expanders: the lack of crashes... Trick or treat?
But my point may be too naive !
Cheers,
David
