18 Mar
2003
18 Mar
'03
4:03 p.m.
Thomas Webb wrote:
Well, compiling the generated C code with a cross assembler
for the DSP will do that for you :)
The tricky bit would be making the generated C code "agnostic"
enough with regard to issues like:
~floating vs fixed point arithmetic
~block processing vs blockless
~control value representation and rate
~code calling conventions
~the nature of connections between modules
Even ignoring (for a moment) the idea of compiling for a dsp,
modular synth developers would want to make different decisions
from each other regarding some of the above points.
Simon Jenkins
(Bristol, UK)
I was very
impressed by the XML representation of
LADSPA plugins
presented by Steve Harris at the LAD conference last
weekend. He writes
the code and parameter specifications of his LADSPA
plugins in XML and
then converts ("compiles") them to the C code
according to ladspa.h.
Here's an idea: find a way to conver these same XML
files into dsp assembler. All the sudden, the same
stuff you use to make a softsynth can be reused for a
hardware synth!