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Do they / would they ever create PCI (computer hardware) synthesizers?
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| jupiterone |
Is it possible? I don't even know whether it has been done or can be done but it sounds kind of cool. Or something along the lines of usb/firewire synths/modules that act as the hardware but have a software environment and interface?
Has this been discussed at all? I mean, it could save LOADS of room but would such a technology be big/powerful enough to supply the different of sound when compared to fully software based synthesis?
I think Korg has done something like this called Oasys PCI synth but I'm not sure whether it is the type of thing I'm talking about.
Thoughts? |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
Is it possible? I don't even know whether it has been done or can be done but it sounds kind of cool. |
Yes its been done, powercore? Theres something even more similar, SID or something...
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
Or something along the lines of usb/firewire synths/modules that act as the hardware but have a software environment and interface?
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Its called a virus TI.;)
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
Has this been discussed at all? I mean, it could save LOADS of room but would such a technology be big/powerful enough to supply the different of sound when compared to fully software based synthesis?
I think Korg has done something like this called Oasys PCI synth but I'm not sure whether it is the type of thing I'm talking about.
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OASYS is a keyboard as far as I know, I think it might take PCI expansions. Its a bloody big beast, the best synth they make with teh guts of every other synth in it, like the triton, radius etc. |
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| Freak |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
Or something along the lines of usb/firewire synths/modules that act as the hardware but have a software environment and interface?
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Nord Modular |
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| Honzi |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
Theres something even more similar, SID or something... |
HardSID |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by Honzi
HardSID |
Thats the one I was thinking of:) |
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| jupiterone |
| I'm not sure if I described my idea right but, more like just a small USB flash drive as the hardware itself. Probably not possible but just a thought. Same with the PCI card, just the size of a sound card. |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by jupiterone
I'm not sure if I described my idea right but, more like just a small USB flash drive as the hardware itself. Probably not possible but just a thought. Same with the PCI card, just the size of a sound card. |
That HardSid thing is the size of a normal sound card I think. But I can't see why they would make a memory stick sized synth; for one thing you couldn't fit the components in there, for another there would be no point. Even if you could have a small DSP in there, it would only add more processing power. But if you could fit a worthwile amount of power in a USB stick, the technology would probably be so good that you wouldn't need it because your CPU would be so massive... |
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