[linux-audio-dev] things to port to the gp2x ..

[Jay Vaughan]

hi all,

well i've recently waded into the GP2X territory, fairly deeply, and 
i'm enjoying it immensely:

http://gbax.com/

its a dual-processor (ARM) portable games machine, battery powered, 
US$180, and .. it runs linux, has a very interesting EXT connector 
which supports USB and MIDI, video and audio, and extremely active 
games coding is going on, with well over 10,000 games currently 
runnable on it (emulation, baby):

http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/EXT

it can support usb-gadget audio (already has usb-gadget serial) so it 
wouldn't be terribly hard to 'integrate' it, either, with USB-based 
audio outputs .. and there is SDL onboard too, for graphics, with 
cairo/libsvg of course ..

so its not such a stretch to consider this to be -the- synthesis 
platform of choice for linux audio hacking, and so i was wondering .. 
what linux-based softsynths do you think would be worthy to port to 
such a beast?  i've already got sampling, a sequencer (thanks to 
MidiShare), and some basic audio idea's down, but what do you guys 
think about having a bit of a port-fest and turning the GP2X into a 
veritable treasure trove of a softsynth platform?

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Jay Vaughan