Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-29 Thread David McClanahan
at the end. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:32 PM, David Olofson wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010, at 21.01.38, David McClanahan > wrote: > [...] > > > The relevant definition of "hard realtime system" here is "a system > that > > > always responds in bou

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-28 Thread David McClanahan
at a time. The fair part may be the "3 levels of cache" which I assume amounts to a buffering delay. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:55 PM, David McClanahan > wrote: > > Another issue to me is not just getting a hard realtime sy

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-28 Thread David McClanahan
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:47 PM, David Olofson wrote: > On Tuesday 26 January 2010, at 21.15.43, David McClanahan > wrote: > [...] > > 3. I'm a little worried about what some are calling realtime systems. The > > realtime system that is part of Ubuntu Stu

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-28 Thread David McClanahan
getting a hard realtime system going, but some tool to analyze code output from the compiler to tell me its execution time(based upon processor/clock conditions) d On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:15 PM, David McClanahan > wrote: > >

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-26 Thread David McClanahan
Hi, Thanks for the response. Some thoughts 1. Bristol synth was one the first synths I tried. I had installed Ubuntu(Karma I think. BTW: Ubuntu is based off Debian and that packaging system didn't seem to save me from breaking things) and then used various "apt" commands suggested on the Ubuntu

[LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-23 Thread David McClanahan
Hi, Where to start? I have a Dell 7000 laptop and I'm wondering if it can be a music synthesizer(something like a Minimoog). If not, why not? I know there are much more powerful machines out but that's beside the point. If the goal is a dedicated performance grade synth(as in it sounds good and d