[sdiy] DSP kits (was: Re: has anyone ever made their own Nord Modular?)

[Richard Wentk]

At 20:31 22/10/2005, Rainer Buchty wrote:
> >Therefore 4 kB for synth-style sampling isn't what I'm after - for that
> >I have the ESQ-1.
>
>Oh, no, there you have 512b per waveform :)
>
>The longest multicycle waves on the SQ80 have ~4kB, IIRC.

Pedantically, that's wavetable synthesis though, not sampling.

Not that you can't make interesting sounds with it. It's just a different 
animal.

> >In fact, that's one of the reasons I want an ISA board, to eliminate
> >MIDI latency.
>
>That part I don't understand. Where's the relationship between latency
>and ISA or PCI? The latency you experience on modern PCs is an effect of
>the OS, not the bus.

Not getting this one either. Latency depends on drivers and the amount of 
buffering that's needed to process and play blocks of audio. There's no 
reason I can think of why you couldn't have ASIO drivers for an ISA card.

The old 330h MIDI port model, for which latency isn't really an issue, 
could be driven from DOS, and I suppose there's no reason you couldn't put 
one of those on a PCI card. Or an ISA card.

Richard