jksuperstar wrote:I used to think Haiku was a worthy pursuit (back when it was BeOS and openBe), but I'm not sure what the advantage is today. I don't think it'd get lower latency than most systems get now, so then...?
The only advantages I envisioned were faster OS load times, and less muck (and 'necessary' updates) once the Haiku platform was sorted. Some of the inspiration was from the quality of RADAR audio on the old BeOS platform and a marriage with SCOPE would've been pretty interesting.
jksuperstar wrote:Also, DSPs speak completely different machine code from Intel processors, so VST porting isn't really straight forward, it would have to go back to the source code at the developer, and be modified to suit the DSP platform of scope, recompile it with a new compiler, plus get a new GUI to talk with the host side of scope. Each of those is a big task.
That was my hunch, but this idea surfaced in a few threads and I think now they were sloppily saying 'use SCOPE plugs' instead of 'CPU hungry VSTs'. I myself have programmed microcontrollers and know that DSPs are just bigger/badder/faster microcontrollers of a sort so I couldn't imagine the pixie dust involved in such a transition...