[music-dsp] Open Source DSP Analog Simulation Synth

[Didier Dambrin]

But to be honnest, why would you stick an antivirus in a PC dedicated to 1 
single task, being a synth?

There are surely OSes that will boot as instantly as you'd need, and they 
would still end up more versatile than something custom.





> >
> > when I started still works and produces audio. With a modern system, 
> > provided
> > you are not trying to do something beyond the CPU power, there are no 
> > lost
> > frames (dropouts) and there is good timing. I would not invest time and
> > effort on a piece of hardware that will be obsolete next year. It's just 
> > not
> > my thing.
> > I'm very happy with the quality of what I get out of a PC.
>
> I beg to re-differ :)
>
> With a DSP board you can get a latency far below anything you can dream of 
> on
> a non-realtime OS.
>
> When you take it to a gig, it does not take a minute to boot.

a minute??!!  i wish!!  with AVG or whatever anti-virus is happening, it 
takes *multiple* minutes for my XP to transition from pushing the power 
button to being able to do anything with it.  and i can't figure out how to 
clean it up, it's not like i can just disable some "Startup Items" like in 
the mac.

it's unbelievable the giant steps backward that PC (and even the mac) are 
taking since the 90s.

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