[linux-audio-dev] synthesis on gp2x .. (was Fwd: RE: [gpx-dev] hardware interfaces)

[Paul Davis]

> the gp2x just plain rocks.  nothing quite like having a completed 
> linux platform in your pocket, running thousands and thousands of 
> games, and soon .. music software of note.  for example, i think you 
> can all expect to see news about drum machines, trackers, sequencers, 
> patch librarians, and editors, on the gp2x platform, in the coming 
> weeks and months .. not bad for a battery-powered pocket, portable 
> linux device.

exciting, but it will be completely divergent from the intel/ppc world
because of the floating point issue.

this is really a great shame. floating point versus fixed point samples
will reach deep into most audio/music software, and certainly deep in
JACK. i can just about begin to imagine how one might write a JACK and a
JACK client that could run on fixed or floating point, but beginning is
where i give up.

--p