On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:15 -0500, David McClanahan wrote: > ... Roland, Korg, Yamaha put out turnkey products on what I suspect is > simpler hardware and my question is there any reason why similar > turnkey systems could not be developed on a Linux system ... >
There is a difference between 'any Linux system' and 'a Linux System built for audio' A Roland/Yamaha styled HW synth will at least have one dedicated DSP - or even custom built logic - directly connected to its ADC/DAC to do the single innermost loop that is the RT-application. Everything else is for display, blinken-lights and monitoring state of knobs and buttons. A $150 Beagle Board has the nescessary HW and connectivity to work like that. Your Dell laptop does not. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev