[sdiy] Muse Receptor Plug-in player

[Tom Wiltshire]

Have people seen this? -

http://www.museresearch.com/receptor.php

Myself, I've only just caught up with it. It reminded me rather of a  
discussion we had here with Paul Maddox, talking about trying to get  
together some generalised digital audio hardware for designing synths  
on. The Chameleon is one example, but we still need a new one.

Still, I find myself rather underwhelmed. It's just a PC in a rack  
box really, isn't it? And "designing a synth" for such a unit would  
actually be sitting down to write a lot of software. In my world,  
synths *have* software, but synths are not *just* software.
Even something like John Bowen's Solaris (http://www.johnbowen.com/ 
solaris.html) still seems much more like a "real synth", even if it's  
all DSPs on the inside, and the interface is pretty much just general  
purpose LCDs and rotaries.

Sigh.

T.