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

[Jay Vaughan]

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>exciting, but it will be completely divergent from the intel/ppc world
>because of the floating point issue.
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so?  any particular reason a linux hacker should give a damn?  are 
intel/ppc the only CPU's worth writing audio software for?  should 
linux become platform-homogenized, just because of this issue?  i 
think not!

>this is really a great shame.

its not a shame, its an opportunity.  nothing less!

>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.

good thing you aren't the only one writing code then, isn't it .. i 
mean, sure, JACK is lovely, Ardour too, but its really a shame you 
can only run them on intel/ppc ..

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Jay Vaughan