Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

"KewlSynthOS" ?? No shit. What do you call all these audio distributions floating around that basically claim "Plug us in and you'll have an instant studio", "Look at our low latency" Blah Blah Blah. How many years has Linux been out? And how many years has ALSA and OSS been coupled with it? Since we're into "latency", I dare say I'd get less latency if I plugged in a 1Mhz  Commodore 64(with 64Kb) and played the SID chip than the latency I've gotten from trying to get Linux to give me soft synth on a machine with 200Mhz processor and 200+MB of memory.  When this started this a dedicated bootup synth what I suggested because quite frankly think its a bit much to insure a machine will run reliably as a synth and do spreadsheets at the same time. AND I think a lot people would gladly make the tradeoff to have an inexpensive reliable instrument especially if they could resurrect an older machine for such purposes. From where I stand, it looks like a LOT of effort has been expended on Linux audio systems. It seems to me(forgetting my mission to acheive synth nirvana on the Dell for the moment) that it would have been worthwhile to build the audio on a hard realtime system since 1. Correct behavior is dependent upon time deadlines 2. That's what hard realtime systems are specifically geared to do. Anyway, enough.