yes, you're pretty wrong all over the place
I have half a dozen synths with unison - and it's always 'detunable' as otherwise one wouldn't notice it
there is no such thing as a 'real' SDK - it is what it is and that for good reasons.
You can only develope for SFP in the SFP environment, with SDK (formerly called DP).
It speeds up developement time for a factor between 20 and 100.
That's no typo and it means multiplies, not percent.
There is no libs, compiler, linker or assembler as in C programming it simply doesn't exist.
From a programmers viewpoint this stuff is called meta-programming at best.
afaik no licenses for commercial developement are granted, not even for tons of money.
If the former 5k Euro (incl hardware) are 'a ton of money' in your consideration, well - look around what industry prices typically are
SFP doesn't suffer from a limit of extensibility - it suffers from no local memory on the PCI card.
That is it's only (severe) flaw.
People generally underestimate the quality of supplied code in SFP/SDK because it's got the 'stock' label.
It isn't encrypted for nothing, as it has been put together most likely by highly specialzed engineers. You may have noticed that Analog Devices is a leading supplier for high end audio gear in both 'consumer' (if a $2k CD player matches the definition...) and professional market (Fairlight, LiquidChannel, Axe-FX for example)
the latter is a $1.5k guitar fx processor based on 'custom' routines - imho Dynatube based on SFP standard stuff keeps up pretty well ...
'Custom' in this context doesn't mean anyone wrote it from scratch - they've used Analog's basic audio lib - which I can safely assume because otherwise they'd still code and debug...
Anyone insisting of custom DSP assembly code would have to proof his (or her) competence versus Analog's (and 3rd party) specialists first
cheers, Tom
if this doesn't make you happy, avoid thunderstorms and check out parties and girls over the weekend, lots of action supposed to happen. Or a good book or some music...
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