[Stk] Building stk on PS3 running with YLD 5

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi John,
               It's good to know that the MIDI sport series works! I came a 
list of supported MIDI hardware and it was on the list.

Are you also working on Cell technology? The reason I got involved with Cell 
in the first place is because I am working on a UML profile for the Cell 
processor, to support automatic code generation in C++ using real-time UML 
2.0. I used the IBM Cell Simulator last year, but now I have access to a PS3 
and I'm trying to learn more about coding for this new processor, and then 
attempt to refine the CBE UML Profile specification that I am working on.

I am yet to try STK on the PS3 and have not tried any of the open source 
synthesis toolkits before. Have you seen the Korg OASYS? It uses linux for 
it's O/S and has upgradeable synthesis engines via software, but runs on a 
Pentium IV processor. Korg internally used to have a SynthKit to develop the 
synthesis models and released one version of it when the OASYS was initially 
released in a PCI form.

With regards to the PS3, I guess it is best used as an experimental 
computational accelerator. However, I feel try to get STK to run on it and 
probably vectorize some of the code, etc, it would just be an academic 
exercise n I feel nobody would use it for making music. There has to be a 
real differentiator/compelling reason to attempt to use a PS3 to make music, 
n so far, I can't think of any! Unless someone tries to get it to sound more 
powerful than the Access Virus TI, that's to the PS3 powerful processor or 
something along similar lines.

When I think of an excuse to try to do something on the PS3, n I look at the 
STK, I keep thinking its not the same as a dedicated synth manufacturer 
putting a lot of effort n R&D into the synth engine, voicing, etc. I would 
very much like to do something that would complement existing synths and 
bring something unique to the table, but so far, haven't been able to come 
up with an interesting concept/idea.


Elvis John Dowson





>From: John Dey <jsdey@optonline.net>
>To: Elvis John Dowson <elvis_dowson@hotmail.com>
>CC: stk <stk@ccrma.stanford.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Stk] Building stk on PS3 running with YLD 5
>Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:44:20 -0500
>
>Elvis,
>
>I have used Midsports 2x2 and uno with fedora core 5 with great success.  I 
>haven't tried to download the firmware to those units on the PS3 but I 
>might try.  I will report back.   I was stabbing in the dark with stk 
>hoping that it would load and run using alsa.  I am going to drop stk for 
>now and devote attention to figuring how to get "c" programs using the alsa 
>API working.  I have tried to compile and load some simple test programs 
>without success.  I know that at least parts of alsa work (e.g. aplay and 
>speaker-test do).  Have you managed to compile and load any alsa programs?  
>If so, could you share with me the compile and load options?  Thanks.
>
>John
>On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Elvis John Dowson wrote:
>

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