[sdiy] FW: FW: Communications with voices in a polyphonic synth

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 12 Mar 2010, at 14:56, Jerry Gray-Eskue wrote:

> OSC, using text strings is going to be processor intensive, no big  
> deal with
> a desktop or high end DSP, but when using a small micro and very  
> limited
> ram/code space/processor speed it gets hard to get good performance  
> and may
> not fit in the code space.

Jerry's right - this is the killer.

OSC looks fine, but even storing the strings would be a big deal on a  
PIC. You haven't got *any* string slicing/dicing functions unless you  
write them, so it turns into a lot of code, which is then going to be  
slow. Byte-size MIDI messages are better from that point of view.

T.