Hi everyone,
I had been haunting the surround processor part of the forum for a while to complete my HT/music system with built-in DSP active crossovers. I had some luck a few years ago to hack and modify Monolith HTP-1 to achieve that. I still have some issue though, such as difficulties to modify/debug/build the DSP F/W, sample rate limit at 48kHz engaging Dirac Live 3 room correction, and the limit on the number of output channels. So I am turning my eyes into the computer-based sound card systems to eliminate such limits.
Since new M1 Mac mini is affordable, quiet and very powerful in processing, I am looking into M1 Mac mini + 16+ch USB DAC (+ preferably multichannel analog volume control somehow). I can write my own processing code which is actually quite simple(duplicate channels, FIR, sum channels, delay) but I didn't see a good support on doing such things on my own. As an alternative, if some S/W on Mac can just let me add an FIR and delay, that would probably fit the bill. I also want to run 4k BD UHD player S/W, Apple Music or Qobuz, and VLC for files, followed by Dirac Live then the DSP processing support I mentioned in a cascaded manner. If there is a good S/W for this, I'd love to know about it.
I am very new, or even haven't started in this area yet, so am humbly asking for helps in finding the right H/W and S/W. If someone knows how to program a plug-in into MacOS audio driver, I am willing to take on it, too. Looking forward to great helps from knowledgeable and experienced members here.
Regards,
Jay
I had been haunting the surround processor part of the forum for a while to complete my HT/music system with built-in DSP active crossovers. I had some luck a few years ago to hack and modify Monolith HTP-1 to achieve that. I still have some issue though, such as difficulties to modify/debug/build the DSP F/W, sample rate limit at 48kHz engaging Dirac Live 3 room correction, and the limit on the number of output channels. So I am turning my eyes into the computer-based sound card systems to eliminate such limits.
Since new M1 Mac mini is affordable, quiet and very powerful in processing, I am looking into M1 Mac mini + 16+ch USB DAC (+ preferably multichannel analog volume control somehow). I can write my own processing code which is actually quite simple(duplicate channels, FIR, sum channels, delay) but I didn't see a good support on doing such things on my own. As an alternative, if some S/W on Mac can just let me add an FIR and delay, that would probably fit the bill. I also want to run 4k BD UHD player S/W, Apple Music or Qobuz, and VLC for files, followed by Dirac Live then the DSP processing support I mentioned in a cascaded manner. If there is a good S/W for this, I'd love to know about it.
I am very new, or even haven't started in this area yet, so am humbly asking for helps in finding the right H/W and S/W. If someone knows how to program a plug-in into MacOS audio driver, I am willing to take on it, too. Looking forward to great helps from knowledgeable and experienced members here.
Regards,
Jay