56303 DSP Eval Kit?

[Paul Perry]

At 12:38 PM 4/05/99 -0700, Barry L Klein  wrote:
>

>Has anyone messed with the Motorola DSP56303EVM eval kit?  That chip is
used in the Nord
>modular, Access Virus, and Waldorf synths.  How much does it cost and what
can you do with
>it?
>
..a friend designed his own monosynth around this kit, very nice emulated
filters,
full morphing (except you cant morph from one filter structure to another).
Sounds a lot better than a Nord, FWIW.
He did all the LCD , MIDI, and front panel overhead/housekeeping in the DSP
as well.
He has 8 pots on the panel to allow real time tweaking of paramaters.

The good thing abt the chip is that all the codec stuff is there.
The silliest thing abt the DSP chip is that (contrary to advertising) it has
very little
in common with its 'predecessors', so far as code transportability is concerned.

paul perry Frostwave P/l Melbourne Australia