Win95 softsynth / Threads

[Angus Hewlett]

P-Tar wrote:
> 
> >Not quite _no_ latency (there is no such thing, at least on a PC), but
> >as good as or better than plenty of popular (hardware) synths. Good
> >enough to play live - something no other softsynth can claim (at least
> >on my "lowly" P166).
 
> Wow. Any idea how they might achieve this ?

No idea of the technical details, but they use "modified" sound-card
drivers (i.e. not the standard MME or DirectSound interface). Seer, the
developers of Reality, have some kind of close partnership with Creative
Labs - I believe they had a hand in the software synth that shipped with
the Awe64.

(note this applies to Reality 1.0 - I have no idea about 1.5)

Cheers,
	Angus.