Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Modular synths of the world, unite and take over :-)
From: Simon Jenkins (sjenkins_AT_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 22:52:19 EET
Thomas Webb wrote:
>>I was very impressed by the XML representation of
>>LADSPA plugins
>>presented by Steve Harris at the LAD conference last
>>weekend. He writes
>>the code and parameter specifications of his LADSPA
>>plugins in XML and
>>then converts ("compiles") them to the C code
>>according to ladspa.h.
>>
>>
>
>Here's an idea: find a way to conver these same XML
>files into dsp assembler. All the sudden, the same
>stuff you use to make a softsynth can be reused for a
>hardware synth!
>
Well, compiling the generated C code with a cross assembler
for the DSP will do that for you :)
The tricky bit would be making the generated C code "agnostic"
enough with regard to issues like:
~floating vs fixed point arithmetic
~block processing vs blockless
~control value representation and rate
~code calling conventions
~the nature of connections between modules
Even ignoring (for a moment) the idea of compiling for a dsp,
modular synth developers would want to make different decisions
from each other regarding some of the above points.
Simon Jenkins
(Bristol, UK)
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