Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] sample accurate events and scheduling events in the future

[Steve H. <S.W...@ec...>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 05:29:05PM +0200, David Olofson wrote:
> However, keep in mind that what we design now will run on hardware 
> that's at least twice as fast as what we have now. It's likely that 
> the MIPS/memory bandwidth ratio will be worse, but you never know...

I'm always nervous about this suggestion, I will most likly still be using
the machine I'm using now, so moores law wont have effected me personally.

We should support machines that are current now and not try to second
guess.
 
> What I'm saying is basically that benchmarking for future hardware is 
> pretty much gambling, and results on current hardware may not give us 
> the right answer.

But at least we knew they are accurate for /some/ hardware.
 
> Audio rate controls *are* the real answer (except for some special 
> cases, perhaps; audio rate text messages, anyone? ;-), but it's still 
> a bit on the expensive side on current hardware. (Filters have to 
> recalculate coefficients, or at least check the input, every sample 
> frame, for example.) In modular synths, it probably is the right 

Not really, they /can/ recalcualte every sample, they dont have to.

- Steve