Serial Synthesizer Support

[Halim Sahin]

Hi,
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:14:37PM +0200, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Dne 14.8.2010 06:15, Steve Holmes napsal(a):
> > Hey, I was thinking of wanting to include support for serial
> > synthesizers like Speakout, DEC Express, Lite Talk, etc.
> 
> Hi Steve and all,
> 
> the hardware synthesizers will probably always be quite limited in its
> functionality compared to sw as they mostly don't support callbacks etc,

Hmm, they only need to support indexing to implement a working driver
afaik.


> so things like say all in Orca or some cases of message synchronization
> will not work as they should.  However, 

as said, indexing support would be needed.

> Probably a good way to do that would be to write a single hwsynth
> output module, which would be configurable for different synthesizers,
> or it might use some sort of autodetection to set up itself for the
> currently connected synth (if it is supported).  This should be well
> considered during the initial design.


Any kind of autodetection would take a lot of time during start.
I am aware of one application which supported the autodetection of
serial synths.
But that app used this information only in it's setupproeccess.

br.
halim