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

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:02 +0000, carmen wrote:
> > 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..
> 

I think there would be a market for this, if the DSP plugin API is fully
documented.  Usually it's proprietary because the vendors' business
model is selling DSP plugins.

Lee