an idea ...

Haible_Juergen#Tel2743 HJ2743 at denbgm3xm.scnn1.msmgate.m30x.nbg.scn.de
Thu Nov 14 02:35:00 CET 1996


All these wonderful projects on the DIY list made me think:
First Genes synth pcb, then a professional method for front panels,recently
someone who will have digisound pcbs made in larger quantities -
great things are going on here!

Now, there's something that *I* would like to have, and others may find
it useful, too: I'd like to have a programmer module for general 
applications.
I'd like to use it for home-built FX devices and synths, and it should
only do what evey old storable analogue synth does: Scanning voltages,
storing them in a buffered RAM, putting them out over multiplexers
again. Plus all the handling: Edit mode, compare function and handling
of memory locations. 32 MUX channels would be good, 64 would be
better. Maybe it could be expandable: Solder one MUX into the
pcb for a small FX device, and all MUX chips if you want to make
a large synth storable.

I am sure that this is easy for anybody who
writes uC programms, and well it is implemented in many synths,
but I'd *love* to have a little stand-alone module that does exactly
this.
I wonder if I am the only one who would find this useful, but doesn't
have the skill to do it himself?
Would anybody like to do such a project? Personally, I'd surely buy
quite a lot of these pcb's and eproms, if someone would devellop
such a project! (Unfortunately, all my energy goes into analogue
circuits, so I am still a complete idiot in uC programming.)

What do you think?
Would there be some demand for such a module?
Would anybody feel  capable (time and skill ...) to devellop it ?
Let me know what you think ...

JH.



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