On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 23:31:21 -1000, David Jones wrote: >Used to program on a C64. I wrote a Mandelbrot set generator in 6510 >assembler. Had to turn off interrupts to get processing time down to >many many hours vs the days it took in BASIC. > >Fun times. That is the issue with those old computers. The advantage was direct access to hardware registers by the bus, but as soon as the capabilities of the computers were involved, slow CPU and less direct accessible RAM, the issues for those machines started. For MIDI this means no noticeable MIDI jitter, because no layers were involved to access the hardware and no real multitasking was involved, but they only could operate with a very limited ticks-per-quarter-note resolution, because the computer had limits to process the data. The C64 so to say quantised MIDI events even with quantisation disabled. Using SysEx in combination with other MIDI events was impossible. "64k is enough for anyone" http://dustlayer.com/c64-architecture/2013/4/13/ram-under-rom Btw. it's not taken for granted that modern computers, when only using software synth, IOW no external MIDI gear, are able to provide good sync, when recording them. On Linux it works perfect to record an audio track of a synth that is separated from the DAW. E.g. recording Yoshimi with Ardour, Qtractor etc. everything is in sync. On my iPad everything is in sync, as long as e.g. MusicStudio plays e.g. Animoog, but as soon as I record Animoog using Audiobus, the MusicStudio Tracks and the recorded Animog track gets out of sync. That's more annoying than crosstalk and drop outs of sync tracks on analog tape machines was. I spend significant less time with working around issues in the old days, than I need to waste time to work around issues nowadays. Perhaps iOS could benefit from Jack a lot, but Jack doesn't run anymore on iOS and apart from this, more or less no app ever supported it. There are different alternative available to Audiobus, but they all seem to be less reliable than what we get with Linux, OTOH a lot of proprietary apps provide what we don't get for Linux. I haven't used a Mac PC for more than a decade and wonder if an AIO DAW nowadays works without issues, for what ever work-flow and kind of music we would use it. It does coast too much money and if Donald should makes America great again, Apple unlikely will become less expensive ;). So e.g. running Ardour on a Mac, to benefit from proprietary snyth on a Mac is out of reach for me. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
