[sdiy] My New Project - PCSYNTH

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 06 June 2005 03:50 am, Martin Fay wrote:
> 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.

There are also realtime extentions and patches available for linux,  which are 
commonly used when the software is controlling machine tools,  that might 
bear some looking into...