You don’t have to worry about this with hardware synthesizers, which have dedicated low-latency hardware. If you want really low latency on a software platform, you need a quality audio interface with solid drivers, and you need to make sure other software does not interfere. Even with new products, hardware still tends to be held to a higher standard than software, which can be very important for live performance. They just work, very rarely crash, and most can cold boot in seconds. No driver upgrades, compatibility woes, etc. Many hardware synthesizers made 15+ years ago still run completely fine. Most hardware synthesizers are more reliable than their software counterparts. That said, some of the advantages of digital hardware synthesizers are: In terms of digital hardware synthesizers, realistically there is very little they do that isn’t technically feasible with comparable software. Digital software can emulate this (and will do so increasingly well as technology improves), but if you want true analog sound, you need analog hardware. “First, note that some hardware synthesizers contain analog electronics, which employ entirely different mechanisms of sound creation and manipulation than digital software. Please follow the link to the >registration hereTopics here<. For detailed information about the course please consult the Guidelines IntroSlides (registration in TUMOnline is only possible from 15th March, before that, only registration in the link below is necessary). Three presentations/reviews are equally distributed over the working period to show progress and drawbacks and to learn present the results. The core idea of this course is to let the students implement a piece of software that is part of typical engineering applications in order to confront them with typical questions from computational problem solving of real-world problems. In many cases, the topics arise from engineering practice and are executed and supervised in cooperation with the industry. For this seminar, the students work together in groups of three on a specific research topic, supervised by research/teaching assistants. Software Lab is a master seminar over a period of two semesters.

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