30 Nov
2007
30 Nov
'07
8:49 p.m.
Le Samedi, 1 Décembre 2007 01:34:42 +0100,
David Olofson <david(a)olofson.net> a écrit :
I believe it comes down to tweaking and polishing.
Hardware synths
are expensive beasts, and all you get is one instance with limited
polyphony. They *have* to sound better, or be vastly superior in some
other way, or no one is going to pay that kind of money.
Could very well be. I agree with what you're saying. I'm working
quite often at the FPGA level interface and such so I do not see any
major hindrance for delivering deep, rich sounds with Linux software,
as long as the hardware can deliver it.
There shouldn't be a problem getting at least as
good sound out of a
softsynth, provided someone actually takes the time to tune the DSP
to perfection and program a set of really good sounds. I'm not sure
that is ever going to happen for Free/Open Source synths - but then
again, it just might if/when the community reaches that particular
critical mass.
That's the dilemna. Too often I read that x card is supported in Linux
only to find out that the guys managed to get bytes out of it and
that's it.
Just to be sure: I'm all for Linux and Open Source.
Cheers,
Al