[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:22:37 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0402021118030.8862 at atbode100.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

> > Maybe Intel should resurrect the Alpha! ;O)
> 
> Nice dream... But political reasons are far beyond rational :)

Indeed, indeed ;O)

> > But NOW you have joined the group in need of that comment! ;O)
> 
> :)
> 
> > The best thing you can do is to *really* separate the processing.
> 
> Sure, that's what I wanna do. But with a "sea of voice processors" and a
> single user-interface/MIDI processor there must be some sort of parameter
> forwarding at some stage.
> 
> I could use a fast "broadcast" serial port, of course, but then I'd
> interrupt the voice processors from time to time and all I wanted them
> interrupted from is the timer interrupt... It's admittedly more of a
> religious thing here.

Well, ofcourse you need to move the data around. That can also be done in a
strict way for random patches. You can do that without interrupting anything
but rather just another aspect of the synchronous processing.

> > Magnus - needs to get out more too when I come to think about it...
> 
> What's out there which can't be emulated inside?

Life.

Cheers,
Magnus - now how's that for an answer?