[sdiy] My New Project - PCSYNTH

[Martin Fay]

tomg wrote:
> Didn't one of our guys write Vaz? Sorry I should
> remember....??

Uhh, yes :)

My main thought on this is Linux. It satisfies the free (as in 
beer)-ness that Scott is looking for. There should be drivers available 
for old soundcards which are virtually free (i.e. my old Echo Gina20 is 
now worth maybe $60 and that is total overkill for this). A stripped 
down install should be capable of low enough latency. There are also a 
full range of development tools (for free), GCC compiler even nice GUI 
IDEs (i.e. Code::Blocks). The 5x86-133 should be capable of running a 
2-osc monosynth at 44kHz, my 486-66 wasn't far short of this on Windows 
and I know I could optimize the code far better now.


Martin