4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
10:30 p.m.
On 4/5/06, carmen <ix(a)replic.net> wrote:
I'd never pay 500 euro for a dsp card. Never. A sound card, with nice
pre's etc yeah, maybe. I can get a whole lot of cpu for 500 euro. I
think this covers the whole client side dsp thing as stated on
ardour's website. For that price i can buy 2 dual core amd64 4200+
cpus. I think that would be a better use of the money and do more
audio dsp. To me a card like the layla or 1010 is good for 300 euro or
less, but dsp chips are no use.
Loki
I think you
are missing the point. The current design for OGD1 is a
large FPGA with lots of onboard fast RAM and high speed IO ability.
Tim is wondering if such a card (perhaps with some modification for
audio) would be useful to the audio community.
there are several commercial PCI/Firewire products similar to this. namely
the Pulsar, UAD1, TC PowerCore, and a recent card from Creative. they
generally provide DACs and onboard DSP to be used for synths/fx for audio
production, or in creative's case, gaming..
considering how many LADSPA plugins are straight up broken on 64bit, for
example, i doubt theres a critical mass of developer interest to make them
run on an optional DSP card , especially before making them run on the core
CPU that AMD has been selling the past 3 or 4 years. can GCC compile C code
to run on the FPGA? that could be a swing factor..
i dont think im missing the point of what the card can do. but i think most
of us would foremost like something that can be used with low latency with
JACK, of suitable quality and portability, and not have to worry about the
developer deciding no longer to make ALSA drivers next week because 96% of
their users run MacOSX or WinXP..
Carmen