I am reading on
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2011/?page=participation
that one topic of the Linux Audio Conference is "Audio Hardware
Support". This refreshes my curiosity whether there are open source
Hardware synthesizers? It must cool to feed a hardware synthesizer with
DSP code generated by LLVM that is written in Haskell.
I am also a bit unsatisfied with my E-MU X-Board61 (an USB/MIDI control
keyboard without built-in synthesizer). It has all the knobs and buttons
and LEDs I need, but they interact in a way that I would like to change.
If its firmware would be open source I could easily adapt it to my
needs. Unfortunately not only its firmware is closed-source, but some
settings cannot be changed by the built-in buttons, but only via the
closed-source Windows software.
Sure, it might be possible to snoop the USB communication between a
firmware updater and the keyboard and try to analyse it. This would
require USB knowledge, some guess on the control chip in the keyboard
and a lot of time and patience, and an invalid firmware update may leave
the keyboard in an unusable and unalterable state.
So, do you know of open-source alternatives?
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