Hector Martin

a fun side effect of trying to "just" play some notes on a yamaha synth hanging off USB is that it instantly becomes a deep crash course in multilevel buffering strategies, realtime systems, PLLs, phase accumulators, and other shit you don't expect you need to do "hit A play 440"

i'm being informed that using a DAW in realtime results in overruns and underruns all the time and if you're doing it professionally you 'just get a bigger CPU', which leads me to conclude that my standards here are, again, too high

Shame that FireWire isn't really common anymore these days.

there are so many firewire audio interfaces floating around on craigslist etc and it breaks my heart that they're basically all useless now