** Audio effect processing on your video card **

[mauseoleum]

there are also cut-down, cheaper versions of (ati) firegl cards. I wonder if there will be implementation of fx that will be useful for video editing apps.

[casey basichis]

Hey, im just catcing this topic a little late, but has anyone looked into taking the WinFast 3D S800AGP and loading the USD firmware onto it? I know there are sites dedicated to this kind of thing.

[herboriseria]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18538

[jsepeta]

it's now halfway through 2005, and BionicFX has not updated their website with any new info or screenshots.

it's occurred to me that with the Emu 0404 providing dsp powered VSTs for $100 and the proteus X for $150, adding another vendor's DSP card won't make sense unless the efx and/or synths totally ROCK. emu's stuff sounds ok -- i have the emulator x -- but the interface is kind of ugly.

vendors like NI would likely be willing to come out with DSP-powered versions of their products *if* they felt they would make $$ on the proposition. but the benefit of native FX that don't require a DSP is that you lower the barriers to user adoption.

[Grain Bastard]

it's now halfway through 2005, and BionicFX has not updated their website with any new info or screenshots.

vendors like NI would likely be willing to come out with DSP-powered versions of their products *if* they felt they would make $$ on the proposition. but the benefit of native FX that don't require a DSP is that you lower the barriers to user adoption.

The thought of a company called 'NATIVE Instruments' releasing their NATIVE synths/effects for a DSP card of any kind, makes me laugh

I also think the whole thing is not going to happen. Using high power DSP chips to process audio is a very good idea IMO (I have UAD-1 & CW cards) but half of the companies motives for doing so is copy protection for their algo's. I may be well wrong here but I'm pretty sure the copy protection is handled by storing unique codes on the actual hardware itself in a sort of challenge/response system. Both UA and CW need your hardware serial number from their hardware in order to generate you a activation code, which you then store on EPROM on the DSP hardware. I wouldn't be suprised if graphics cards do not have this facility and any firmware hacks to the GPU would also be doubtfull IMO (Too many manufacturers, driver updates overwriting data etc).

Therefore without something like this, the copy protection would be as easily cracked as the rest of the native markets offerings but it would also require the developers to code a GPU/DSP version of their plugins. They don't have the protection but they have extra costs in developing the DSP based version. I do know that there have been cracked DSP card plugins around but all the latest versions seem to have stayed safe for the time being. So safe infact, that TC no longer offer native plugs and UA aren't planning to in the near future.

Shame for BionicFX, I liked the idea in principle and I do hope the come up with something. Maybe they got snapped up by a big developer like Yamaha or Roland and are planning a huge launch or maybe its vapourware as feared when announced.

Just MHO.