3 Jun
2003
3 Jun
'03
7:42 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:50:26AM +0200, Vincent Touquet wrote:
I must say I really like the jack api and ladspa.
One thing that is unfortunate (others would call it
a strength), is the lack of a unified set of widgets we
could use to build plugin guis from (or any application
for that matter).
Agreed. There are a number of ways to solve this, but sadly they all
require a significant ammount of effort, and there are always some
importnat things to be done...
A laso kinda like the UI melange effect you get on VST systems, though
some of hte UIs are truely awful.
What I really crave for, is a affordable general
purpose
DSP card, with a decent driver for Linux, to experiment with.
Well, theres the chameleon (sp?), but that isn;t a card, so wont lett you
accelerate just inner loops. It would be a nice thing but its hard for DSP
card manufacturers to compete with CPU+mothboard guys in the
price/performance stakes, because the volume is so low.
I keep seeing hints that th next generation of motherboards might include
some sort of DSP capability, and theres always graphics cards, which have
pretty meaty DSP capabilities.
Combine it with LinuxBIOS booting in a few seconds and
you
have a very powerful platform :)
+ suspend to ram for a standby mode. Linux recoveres from S2R very
quickly.
- Steve