[sdiy] My New Project - PCSYNTH

[tomg]

Martin!! There you are, I knew that was you  :)
Of course I did...

You are so much the Man! Are you for real 
gonna port a personal VAZ to Linux just for
Scott?  That pegs my cool meter :)  

Scott, you are a very lucky man! The poop 
around the scene is Martin's VAZ is hands
down the most analog of all the softies :)

Regards
Tom

Way too cool, I just love it. Isn't life wonderful?  :)

> 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