[linux-audio-dev] Re: GPL Audio Hardware

[carmen]

> I think you are missing the point.  The current design for OGD1 is a
> large FPGA with lots of onboard fast RAM and high speed IO ability. 
> Tim is wondering if such a card (perhaps with some modification for
> audio) would be useful to the audio community.

there are several commercial PCI/Firewire products similar to this. namely the Pulsar, UAD1, TC PowerCore, and a recent card from Creative. they generally provide DACs and onboard DSP to be used for synths/fx for audio production, or in creative's case, gaming..

considering how many LADSPA plugins are straight up broken on 64bit, for example, i doubt theres a critical mass of developer interest to make them run on an optional DSP card , especially before making them run on the core CPU that AMD has been selling the past 3 or 4 years. can GCC compile C code to run on the FPGA? that could be a swing factor..

i dont think im missing the point of what the card can do. but i think most of us would foremost like something that can be used with low latency with JACK, of suitable quality and portability, and not have to worry about the developer deciding no longer to make ALSA drivers next week because 96% of their users run MacOSX or WinXP..

Carmen