SynthMaker

I/O for DSP applications

Archive · 2009 2 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

FreeRideSkier ·

As an industrial DSP programmer I was delighted to discover Synth Maker. It’s a dream to use and its application far exceeds the music industry.

There have been a few building blocks missing but I have been able to create pretty much everything I needed from scratch if necessary.

So to be honest the only thing missing for me is more I/O possibilities.

Right now we have: Audio& Midi

What would be great is an external module that talked to one of the many digital I/O boards.

I have been using the Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com/) range of USB I/O boards to interface to the outside world, these are used all over the world in schools and universities for robotics , home automation etc.

Right now I have had to write .exe files in c++ to talk to the I/O board and .txt files to pass the data to and from Synth Maker (Shell Execute), it works but it’s a bit clunky.

Having used their SDK its quite simple to integrate into any app. this could not only greatly expand Synth Makers probabilities but also expand the potential market place ten fold.

Andrew J ·

Interesting thought there FreeRideSkier.

Besides adding more I/O, do you foresee other features that would be required for those sorts of applications? Would a lack of network communicaton functions be an issue for example?

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