Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: GPL Audio Hardware

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Tue Apr 04 2006 - 23:20:31 EEST

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:02 +0000, carmen wrote:
> > 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..
>

I think there would be a market for this, if the DSP plugin API is fully
documented. Usually it's proprietary because the vendors' business
model is selling DSP plugins.

Lee
Received on Wed Apr 5 00:15:05 2006

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