hardware synthesizer

[Negoslav Sabev]

Hello,

Now I have enough money to buy a hardware synthesizer. As you know they are 
not so cheep. The last year some kind person pointed me to www.axsol.com to 
check for such an animal. The synth
that works under Linux, DOS and Windows is DekTalk USB, but it needs RS232 
serial port in order to work with DOS and Linux. Does someone here uses this 
synth with linux and speakup? And is it possible this to be accomplished 
without the serial port. As you know the new desktops, laptops and netbooks 
don't have such port installed. If no one has answer, please point me to the 
right place to ask such questions. Unfortunately the person I wrote to from 
the axsol.com don't know the answers.Also if you know about alternative 
synthesizers or ways to use speakup from boot to shutdown I'd be glad to 
hear from you

Negoslav