Re: [sc-dev] SC3e - SuperCollider embedded

[christian hresko <christian.hresko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This has been an interesting conversation to follow.  But... I don't  
see why on Earth you'd need something like the SC Server / Audio  
Engine to provide audio playback on a mobile device.  The SC Audio  
Engine is tight.  Having auditory feedback that helps make a device  
accessible is more of a sonification problem, as opposed to a  
synthesis problem.  Examples of simplicity:

doorbell - ding dong (who's there)
car horn - honk (get out of my way)
fire alarm - annoying bell (get the hell out)
flat line - fixed frequency sine wave (you're dead)

You don't need SC to generate those types of sounds.

And as far as having a mobile device for downloading and sharing  
generative music... why not just record a generative music piece to  
disk and save as MP# format?  Don't get me wrong, I think it's a neat  
idea.  The number of people who actually use SC is probably in the  
hundreds (just a wild guess).  The number of people who'd actually  
have embedded SC on a mobile device downloading and listening to  
generative music would be like, I don't know, 10 people?  Sarcasm,  
but that's a lot of work to make a handful of people happy.  But... I  
could see SC running on something like a PSP (memory being the main  
problem there).


On Oct 21, 2006, at 6:49 PM, kernel wrote:

> On 21 Oct 2006, at 20:23, Joshua Parmenter wrote:
>
> > it will obviously decode a video
>
> i think it has a video DSP chip for that
>
> > ... but how many sin tones could it generate?
>
> not sure, but the original ARM chips were used in multi-tasking  
> desktop systems and clocked at 8Mhz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> RISC_OS).  they were/are RISC chips and if programmed in assembler  
> you could do a quite a lot.
>
> > Find an old PowerPC (pre-G3), and I bet you would start to get a  
> > sense of the limitaions!
>
> i think the ARM chips were faster than those old PPC chips and  
> there are two of them in each iPod (100 MHz each?).  anyway, what  
> they are capable of in an iPod i don't really know - just got fond  
> memories of my ARM equipped RISC computer ;)
>
> but i hear you Josh, i hear you.
>
> kernel
>
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