M@ and The Dweez'

[Peter Korsten]

Op 10-10-2011 16:30, Tony Hardie-Bick schreef:

> I'm more interested to know what the sample rate is on the new ones. The
> details of CPU choice... are exhausting. I wish them luck with the
> 56K... if it's that. Beautiful chip, but a bit of a walled garden.
> Within a commercial context, it can give a real edge. To compete you'd
> currently need a power-hungry FP-chewing monster, perhaps doubling the
> circuit cost. Although this equation is changing as CPU power becomes
> less and less of the restriction on what one is trying to achieve.

So how have things developed since the last time I looked into a 56K 
data book in the 1990s? Jay used to be really into DSP, but he appears 
to have shifted his interest to small, embedded boards.

And how relevant are the developments with GPUs? Nvidia will happily 
sell you a PCI-e board that is basically a re-branded graphics card for 
an amount of money that has your jaw drop and your teeth fall out. But 
perhaps you don't want a GTX 580 with its heat production in a 
professional audio system...

- Peter