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Originally Posted by Tomer=Trance
no,its several times better.
dsp is supirior over cpu for now when it comes to synthesis and such.
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What?
First of all the software G2 depends on the quality of your soundcard's convertors. If that's a simple on-board thing with tons of latency and noise of course the hardware version will sound better.
Second, there's no difference in sound between a DSP and a CPU. A DSP -is- a CPU. It's specialized though, opposed to the generic purpose models which are used in computers.
It does a particular kind of calculations pretty well. Since it does not have to bother with nice pictures or e-mail or whatever crap the efficiency is much higher - and this allows a DSP to run on a lower clock speed than a generic-purpose CPU.
The bits are the same. You can write the software for a DSP in a higher-level language such as C/C++ instead of pure assembler. Eventually the zeroes and ones that come out of it are exactly the same; it's just that the computer version doesn't have the dedicated DSPs running so it has to emulate one in a way. Compare the G2 software with the G2x (preferably via a digital out - but the G2 doesn't have that
) and there should be no difference.
Also, for physical modelling a G2 user named Chet Singer has written several tutorials.
http://chet.getchwood.com/G2-Tutorial/Index.htm