Pocket PC and Music: The Basic Necessities

[mda]

cobalt wrote:
> I wonder what was involved for MDA to write the
> Griff plugs, and how similar it was to putting
> together a VST.


It was pretty similar to making a VST plug-in but with one big difference: all the audio code is fixed-point instead of floating-point as floating-point calculations are much slower on current PDAs. So it was a bit of a brain stretch working out how to do some things, but the available CPU power is actually ok - certainly enough to put together a song if you're careful with the polyphony.

[cobalt]

Wow, the man himself. Thanks for your response. The CPU of PPCs is obviously increasing, but the floating point processing issue is probably not much of a focus of PPC development.

Would limited floating point processing affect the ability to have a low-latency audio application for the PPC? I've been looking for a simple audio multitrack recorder application and there's really nothing out there. I wrote to core-sound (they make that compact flash digital audio interface), and Len informed me that they don't know of anyone making a multitrack application for it. Is there a technical barrier here?

-c

[Squonk]

Are you aware that Image Line is considering making FL for pocket PC? If this sounds good to you please join me in harassing them on Looptalk

I thought they quit working on this? If not, I need to save up for a Pocket PC.

I don't think they ever started.... There was a concept Photoshop mock-up at one point. Remember though that it was intended more as a FL-compatible sketchpad than a fully fledged soft studio IIRC. Make a few loops on the train home to drop into FL later type stuff.

[KLG]

Thanks cobalt. I browsed PalmGear's site, and found an application called Bhajis Loops that looks interesting, I will download it and give it a go.

Wow, this Bhajis Loops thing is cool, almost as good as the early Fruity Loops. I didn't realize my Zire 71 can handle such thing.