[sdiy] audio microprocessors and C++

[Richard Wentk]

On 6 Mar 2008, at 00:01, Julian wrote:

> I was wondering as to how feasible it would be to convert this into  
> hardware?  What i should be reading, and what i should be asking  
> him (i have little experinace with C++ and he has little experiance  
> of electronics)

Why would you want to? You can buy a motherboard, add a disk drive,  
install Linux or even (the horror...) Windows on it, put it in a  
small box or a rack, and have a wide-open real-time DSP system,  
either compiled from the ground up or patched together using PD, Max/ 
MSP, Supercollider or (as a last resort) Csound.

Or you can spend years kludging together some horrible homebrew thing  
that does a couple of audio tricks not terribly well.

Quad-core PCs are affordable now and will spectacularly outperform  
almost any dedicated hardware solution. The only exception would be a  
rack full of specialised DSP hardware - something like Kyma, but more  
up to date.

Richard