On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Henning Thielemann <lemm...@henning-thielemann.de> wrote: > 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?
Not open source, but I've always thought that this guitar pedal DSP platform looked interesting. (About $200) Website claims that the development platform is Windows only, but seeing as it has an embedded x86 (which i find surprising) I imagine it couldn't be that hard to use familiar tools and figure out how to upload a binary. http://line6.com/tcddk/ Although I think building something similar using more open dev kits that you can add a few knobs to might be more fun. Steve _______________________________________________ haskell-art mailing list haskell-art@lurk.org http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art
