[given I have an interest here, as I am trying to develop for the Pulsar
at the moment!]
I have just tried out the new 'U Know 007', which is an emulation of the
Roland Juno 106;
the sounds are really smooth (and I can get up to 13 voices too). A
recent Internet survey has come to the conclusion that if you set the
'007' controls exactly as you would on the Juno, you get the same sound.
I get the impression that a lot of those cycles are going into some very
high quality analogue emulation - and there is a couple of Minimoog
emulations in there too, and ~everyone~ claims to know exactly what that
is supposed to sound like - so more cycles go into making sure it does
sound 'right'.
Still, no doubt there is an overhead in managing multiple dsps, and the
single fast dsp solution does sound attractive. I think we are still in
a game where nothing will be 'enough' for very long!
Richard Dobson
Eric Scheirer wrote:
>
> On the other hand, making efficient use of 240 MFlops in a single-
> processor architecture is easier than 600 MFlops in a multi-processor
> architecture.
>
> If you've ever played with a Pulsar, it's very mysterious where all
> the cycles are being used, since it doesn't seem to do a lot more
> than a PC softsynth in real-time.
>
> -- Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Jullian <mj@exbang.com>
> To: saol-dev list <saol-dev@media.mit.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: SAINT on the web
>
> >Also 240MFlops is a lot less than the 600 MFlops which, according to the
> >Mykerinos web page itself (150MFlops for AD's SHARC), the creamware pulsar
> >card should be able to provide with its 4 SHARCs, for the same price
> (around $1500).
> >
-- Test your DAW with my Soundcard Attrition Page! http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/rwd (LU: 23rd August 1999) CDP: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/CDP/CDP.htm (LU: 14th June 1999)
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