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

[cheater cheater]

Yes... but a PIC is hardly a 21st century processor, let's be honest
with each other guys!

D.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 17:58, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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