[sdiy] programmable synth module

[harrybissell]

OK.  I hate it :^P

The advantage of a dedicated processor is that you don't have to
use / carry a laptop, wait for it to boot...

... and have everyone who is watching the show say "it was all
lip-sync'd
to a computer.

(burn... my last gig everyone who came up said "Is this like Karaoke ?"
or "So do you have backup tapes" or "So is this sequenced ?" and it
pissed me off
because it was absolutely live. I played Guitar, Bass, Synth, Drums,
~and~ sang
while Dana played the Theremin (synths), percussion and sang. The croud
was treated to a really BIG sound from two people working their @sses
off... and they
think its a laptop. <shudder>   :^)

H^) harry

Richard Wentk wrote:

> My own personal ideal, which I'm sure everyone else here will hate, would
> be an 8in/8out DC coupled ADC/DAC box with USB2, 16 bit resolution and
> probably 44.1kHz sampling. Maybe a couple of MIDI ports too.
> 
> You could then use whatever driving software you wanted, from custom
> efforts to things like Reaktor, Max/MSP, and the rest.
> 
> I don't see the point in putting a microprocessor inside a box when you can
> hook up the equivalent of a supercomputer laptop over USB2. (Except
> possibly as a programming exercise.)
> 
> A single processor system can, by definition, only do one thing at a time.
> With a multi IO system you can have MIDI/CV, spare envelopes with weird
> shapes, LFOs ditto, whatever you want, all in real time, and potentially
> all at the same time.
> 
> Richard