4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
7:48 a.m.
On Tue, 04 Apr, 2006 at 04:25AM -0500, Richard Smith spake thus:
On 4/4/06, Dmitry Baikov <dsbaikov(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
My personal views:
You are right in your comments, but please, take
it easier.
Richard and OGP company have no illusions about them being audio professionals.
And yes, it's more useful to look at RME, Echo, M-Audio, but keep it
cool, please ;)
Its ok. I was prepared for the responses. I think the candid
opinions have value, keep em comming. I'll point Tim at the RME,
Echo, and M-Audio to look at as examples.
Basically OGD1 is a big FPGA board with 256Mb of DDR RAM and some nice
clean high speed analog and digital ouputs. The question Tim is
asking (audio cluelessness aside) are: Can the audio community use such a board?
I'd love to see something like this, but at a reasonable cost. I have
a grant application in at the moment to work on something related...
Will they help in producing the feature set and
design?
Of course. We like talking.
What features would it need?
Off the top of my head:
1. Samprerate conversion - fastfastfast!
2. Allocatable memory. It would be nice to be able to allocate memory
on the card as long as it came with some benefits:
i. Fast access
ii. Playing straight from card-ram to outputs
ii. Others...
3. Convolution. And/or frequency domain filtering.
4. Audio-specific instructions sound good, but I don't know exactly
what they would be, yet. Start with a point operation, so we can
do things like gain adjustments fast and maybe wave shaping?
5. Something like shader for audio? Am I dreaming?
6. JACK in hardware? With the features above, this could be very nice.
What would they pay for it?
As little as possible. I personally might manage 300 quid (600
dollars-ish). And we'd love you, of course. Physically, if it's as
good as I hope ;)
For me, if this cost $1000 upwards, it would just be another piece of
hardware to dream about owning.
James
--
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated
Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)