On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:02:23AM +0100, pet...@schwertfisch.de wrote: > Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> wrote: > > > > (In case it's not blazingly obvious, I want to try creating a replacement > > > for a hardware MIDI synthesizer, but that can choose between soundfonts.) > > > > I failed to find this kind of box (tryed to build my synth as > > well). Most platforms I've found seem to be designed either for > > networking or to serve as TVs (i.e. inexistent or poor quality > > analog input/outputs). > > Have you looked at something like the Alix 1e or the Alix 3d3 from > http://pcengines.ch/? The quality of the analog inputs/outputs is > quite decent, and despite the slow CPU they are powerful enough to > handle soundfont based synths like fluidsynth. You would need an > additional USB MIDI cable. >
They are nice, but they've 256MB of RAM (not enough for my needs) and I'm not sure about the analog audio parts (dac/adc quality, the line-out pins have no jack connected).
