16 Aug
2004
16 Aug
'04
9:31 p.m.
On Monday 16 August 2004 03:07 pm, Dave Robillard wrote:
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 16:07, Benno Senoner wrote:
That was exactly what I was thinking when the penny dropped for me.
Originally I was thinking of offload the softsynths, but FX are expensive too.
The ideal is to make a total system, but make it modular, and give it the
ability to connect with existing commercial systems via a VST counterpart to
the plugin.
We need to take over incrementally and this is a killer strategy to get a
toehold.
If I had about $20k, I'd be booking a booth for the winter NAMM already.
Once I've got the demo code buildable, raising the capital is a strong
possibility. I'm pretty sure I have the talent to tap to get that bit done
now that the picture is in focus.
No penguins, no Linus, no ESR, just a box that works well with existing
systems because that's all that matters.
It wouldn't be too hard to talk another vendor into participating with demoing
some cross-platform-over-the-network-capability, but just a two node cluster
of Linux boxes and a good pitch would be a start. One wouldn't be obliged to
go whole hog with linux.
The onlyproblem I envision if you want to
synchronize multiple audio
cards over the network.
I think jack-over-eth would be most useful for using seperate machines
to take off the DSP load and send the audio back to the master machine
which would have the audio interface (like that VST powercore stuff).
That way you could run a big expensive synth on
another machine and just
have it send it's outputs back via jack (so really you wouldn't even
know it's running on another machine - just another jack port)
Yes. A black box with an AC line in and an RJ45. And we have remote GUI
natively which is a crowd pleaser.
I'm sure someone out there would have a use for
syncing cards over the
network, but personally I can't think of a reason it'd be useful, and
it's certainly not worth the effort (if it's possible at all, which I
doubt)
I would have to agree. One of the things that appealed to me about the
implementation as a plug in is that it doesn't require a sound card.
A mobo, a 1u rack case, some flash media and an LED front panel and it's
just another piece of outboard gear.
-DR-