Re: SFront (was Re: Hi i'm new, a few questions)

From: Michel Jullian (mj@exbang.com)
Date: Tue Aug 17 1999 - 07:30:22 EDT


Thanks for the info below, it's quite exciting to see this real-time SAOL
stuff coming up.

Concerning vst2, it's not Windows-specific as you may know : Steinberg
currently provides (free) vst2 sdks for Win, Mac, SGI and BeOS, and allows
anybody who agrees with their (free) license agreement to implement the vst2
interface in his/her host or plugin.

Maybe Charlie Steinberg wouldn't mind if people ported vst2 to Linux, which
would encourage scholars to go for it ? I'll Cc this to the vst-plugins list.
What do you think, Charlie ? Wouldn't it be nice if people could develop vst2
plugins in SAOL as well as C/C++?

http://www.steinberg.net/developers/VSTPlugInsDocumentation/index.html

John Lazzaro wrote:
>
> > If I understand correctly, this version of SFront outputs source code files
> > which when compiled by the MSVC compiler result in an interactive realtime
> > software synth, which is absolutely fantastic !
>
> Well, the Windows real-time stuff is pretty experimental at this point --
> it only runs for a few minutes before device driver problems start
> taking over. My collaborator John Wawrzynek handles the Windows-specific
> stuff, I'll send your vst2 suggestions along to him ...
>
> On a brighter note, though, I've been working on the real-time audio in,
> audio out, and MIDI in for the Linux version, and I'd say its pretty
> stable at this point, at least when tested on the soundcard I use
> (PCI 128). I'm seeing good latencies at this point -- I haven't measured
> the real system end-to-end latency using a scope, but I have a SAOL
> patch that takes a MIDI input stream from a keyboard, audio input from
> a microphone, and uses the microphone as a breath controller for a simple
> patch, that works with low enough latency that I feel comfortable
> performing with it ...
>
> Expect an sfront release in a few weeks with this linux driver, along with
> the usual bugfixes ...
>
> --john lazzaro

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Greetings,
Michel
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