GraysonPeddie
October 27th, 2009, 09:19 PM
Hi. I'd like to know why there aren't any PCI-based hardware synthesizers that fit in the PCI expansion slot? Like it can be an analog synth or wavetable (like in Crystal SoundFusion back during the old days), etc.
The reason why I ask is I thought it'd be great to free up CPU resources. It'd be nice to have hardware synths that fit in PCIe x1 expansion slots.
It all come down to this: I like to take advantage of all the expansion slots in an AMD-based Socket AM3 motherboard (with an on-board video, such as Radeon HD 4200).
And by the way, I don't think that consumer-based sound cards have support for daughterboards, do they? Like Yamaha DB50XG (http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail.html?CNTID=707&CTID=207700)? I know, you'd just be asking me "are you kidding," right? Well, I'll try not to miss the old days of tone modules (like Yamaha MU128), sound cards (Yamaha SW1000XG) or soft synths that interface with Windows' MIDI Mapper (Yamaha SY-XG50, which is the only one I can afford, along with Yamaha XGWorks sequencer for Windows but the soft synth's latency with DirectSound is horrible).
Okay, enough about the talk of old days, since it's time to move in and that's progress (Yeah, I mean, Disney's Carousel of Progress in Tomorrowland. Okay, I'm kidding :)). What I'm saying is, CPUs have evolved so that we could use a lot of software synthesizers and effects (depending on the performance of your CPU), including the RAM (so I can have lots of samples loaded into RAM or use a large sample, such as Bosendorfer 290 Grand Piano). I'll be building a new computer with AMD Athlon II X2 240 processor with 4GB of RAM during late December using either Ubuntu Studio or 64 Studio.
But I'd like to repeat my question again, as mentioned earlier (rephrased version of my questions above):
Are there any PCI/PCIe hardware MIDI synthesizers out there? Or are there any sound cards that have support for daughterboards that provide support for hardware synthesizers?
The reason why I ask is I thought it'd be great to free up CPU resources. It'd be nice to have hardware synths that fit in PCIe x1 expansion slots.
It all come down to this: I like to take advantage of all the expansion slots in an AMD-based Socket AM3 motherboard (with an on-board video, such as Radeon HD 4200).
And by the way, I don't think that consumer-based sound cards have support for daughterboards, do they? Like Yamaha DB50XG (http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail.html?CNTID=707&CTID=207700)? I know, you'd just be asking me "are you kidding," right? Well, I'll try not to miss the old days of tone modules (like Yamaha MU128), sound cards (Yamaha SW1000XG) or soft synths that interface with Windows' MIDI Mapper (Yamaha SY-XG50, which is the only one I can afford, along with Yamaha XGWorks sequencer for Windows but the soft synth's latency with DirectSound is horrible).
Okay, enough about the talk of old days, since it's time to move in and that's progress (Yeah, I mean, Disney's Carousel of Progress in Tomorrowland. Okay, I'm kidding :)). What I'm saying is, CPUs have evolved so that we could use a lot of software synthesizers and effects (depending on the performance of your CPU), including the RAM (so I can have lots of samples loaded into RAM or use a large sample, such as Bosendorfer 290 Grand Piano). I'll be building a new computer with AMD Athlon II X2 240 processor with 4GB of RAM during late December using either Ubuntu Studio or 64 Studio.
But I'd like to repeat my question again, as mentioned earlier (rephrased version of my questions above):
Are there any PCI/PCIe hardware MIDI synthesizers out there? Or are there any sound cards that have support for daughterboards that provide support for hardware synthesizers?