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Linux Cluster For Processing DSP Effects?
SpLiFFoRd asks: "I'm a MIDI musician and songwriter who seems to be constantly running out of processing power for my VST effects when I'm working in CubaseVST. Coincidently, I've also been working on explorations into Linux clusters and parallel processing. As I watched my CPU meter in Cubase hit 95% one night, I began thinking...'What if there was a way to farm out the work of my single processor to an outside Linux cluster with multiple processors to speed things up as well as enable me to run more simultaneous effects without straining the system?' I've been looking around, but don't seem to see any others who might have had this thought. This would be a tremendous real world application to me, and probably to others as well. Do you know anyone who might want to tackle such a project?" Sounds like a worthy project, but sound processing is still in its infancy under Linux, and while the horizon looks good with projects like GLAME and ecasound, I'm wondering if it may be a while before something like this will be feasible. That issue aside, however, I think something like this would be really cool. What about you?"As a side note, when I say 'VST effects', I mean both the original and third party plugins for audio effects such as digital delay, reverb, tapped delay, pitch shifting etc. that work with Cubase."