On Tue, 04 Apr, 2006 at 04:25AM -0500, Richard Smith spake thus:
> On 4/4/06, Dmitry Baikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You are right in your comments, but please, take it easier.
> >
> > Richard and OGP company have no illusions about them being audio
> > professionals.
> > And yes, it's more useful to look at RME, Echo, M-Audio, but keep it
> > cool, please ;)
>
> Its ok. I was prepared for the responses. I think the candid
> opinions have value, keep em comming. I'll point Tim at the RME,
> Echo, and M-Audio to look at as examples.
>
> Basically OGD1 is a big FPGA board with 256Mb of DDR RAM and some nice
> clean high speed analog and digital ouputs. The question Tim is
> asking (audio cluelessness aside) are:
My personal views:
> Can the audio community use such a board?
I'd love to see something like this, but at a reasonable cost. I have
a grant application in at the moment to work on something related...
> Will they help in producing the feature set and design?
Of course. We like talking.
> What features would it need?
Off the top of my head:
1. Samprerate conversion - fastfastfast!
2. Allocatable memory. It would be nice to be able to allocate memory
on the card as long as it came with some benefits:
i. Fast access
ii. Playing straight from card-ram to outputs
ii. Others...
3. Convolution. And/or frequency domain filtering.
4. Audio-specific instructions sound good, but I don't know exactly
what they would be, yet. Start with a point operation, so we can
do things like gain adjustments fast and maybe wave shaping?
5. Something like shader for audio? Am I dreaming?
6. JACK in hardware? With the features above, this could be very nice.
> What would they pay for it?
As little as possible. I personally might manage 300 quid (600
dollars-ish). And we'd love you, of course. Physically, if it's as
good as I hope ;)
For me, if this cost $1000 upwards, it would just be another piece of
hardware to dream about owning.
James
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"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
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