Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] audio application mixing/routing arch
From: James McCartney (asynth_AT_io.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 21:06:25 EEST
on 3/28/00 10:58 AM, David Slomin at david.slomin_AT_av.com wrote:
> Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
>>
>> A) I doubt that you could run the above in real time with low enough
>> latency to make the synth playable from a MIDI controller. Although
>> modern processors are fast, there are limits :)
>
> That's not a good sign. At least for me, a soft-synth is utterly
> useless if it cannot be recorded while being played from a MIDI
> controller in realtime. Does this mean that every soft-synth and
> soft-sampler must double as a single-track HD recorder?
>
> "realtime" ,--> audio output
> MIDI ------> soft-synth ---<
> input `--> disc
Well here's a gauntlet for you Linux folks: BeOS can do this..
--- james mccartney james_AT_audiosynth.com <http://www.audiosynth.com>
SuperCollider - a real time synthesis programming language for the PowerMac.
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