[linux-audio-dev] "vst hardware"

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Oct 4 15:58:00 UTC 2002


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:36:34 -0700, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:27:54PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > http://www.plugzilla.com
> 
> ok... WHAT'S IN THE BOX?????
> 
> they got a pc in there or what?

It appears to be an x86 processor (or some...), that you squirt PC VST
plugins to.

A cost effective way of running host plugins would be using multiple,
cheap CPUs (durons say), and spreading the plugins amongst them. You can't
do it in a PC cos of the OS etc. but it could be possible in some bespoke
hardware. Cooling would be hard though. More practical might be a couple
of mini-ITX boards, easy to cool, cheap ($250 each) and very small.

Cool hardware. Quiet though, implies not silent.

- Steve "no more fans" Harris



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