DSP modular?

[Paul Perry]

At 09:18 AM 3/12/97 CST6CDT, CGS2510.SEP.STUDENT.UCA wrote:

>Also, concerning modular stuff.  Has anyone gotten as interested in 
>DSP as of late as I have and gotten one of the Analog Devices OR 
>Motorolla OR Texas Instruments OR some other DSP evaluation kit?  I 
>have Analog's ADDS 2106x coming in the mail.  Think of it... two 16 
>bit ins, two 16 bit outs, quite a speedy processor, lots of text to 
>read, and a C compiler!!!  And the price is so low nowadays.  You may 
>not be able to write code for a full synthetic modular, but all you 
>gotta do to have every effects processor known to man is download 
>code from computer to evaluation board and you could change its 
>entire purpose in life in just seconds!!!  I'm very excited about it, 
>anyone else tries it?
>
.....a friend has used a Motorola DSP kit to make his own 'extreme fx' unit,
he has 8 banks of eight effects (select by two 8 pos rotary switches).
He has four pots to twiddle, which are assigned to the four most 
interesting parameters in each of the programs. Since psychoacoustic DSP
is what he does professionally, the results are....... interesting!
Now since his pots just pick a voltage off and feed to DSP inputs, this
would be very easy to tie into a modular synth. 
I do not have DSP skills and never will, but I must say DSP looks the way 
for modular analog to progress. I believe you could even multiplex DSP
gear to give effectively a number of "modules" running at the one time,
but with genuine analog patch&play capability.

paul perry melbourne australia