On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Stephen Sinclair <radars...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Replying to myself, yay... Here's another one that came up in my google search... Bit more expensive (~$300), but also more "open".. http://www.howleraudio.com I don't know anything about the "Propeller" chip it uses, though.. Steve _______________________________________________ haskell-art mailing list haskell-art@lurk.org http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art
