[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Richard Wentk <richard at skydancer.com> wrote:
>At 17:35 07/07/2004 +0200, Ingo Debus wrote:
>
>>Am Dienstag, 06.07.04 um 19:08 Uhr schrieb Richard Wentk:
>>

>Meanwhile if there were a DIY open source softsynth - something like Csound 
>but with a more intelligent internal design and better interface - a 
>project like that would run and run. Csound is already 25+ years old.

Good question.  The infinite "if".  As you say, Csound is 25+ years old. 
Where is this utopian open source software?  The possibility has been here
for 25 years.  Why isn't it being done in a DIY realm?  Every free softsynth
I've tried has sucked for one reason or another.

Personally, I think that these things need to start from scratch with an
operating system that is specifically designed for music generation in real
time.  Windows is a piece of sh!t.  Linux is good, but also a general purpose
OS.  This doesn't even touch on the fact that all of this runs on a general
purpose CPU, not one designed to function as a synth.

So I'm back making circuits that do music and don't crash and need a reboot
because of some stupid memory leak, poorly written driver or any of the other
tens of thousands of bugs in every version of Windoze that Microsoft admits
to and declares no intention of fixing.

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