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[Byron G. Jacquot]

>    I have always wanted to build a digital.  I have been looking at the
>Altera ACEX1K devices.  It looks like you could get a complete digital
>synth in one of these things (yea- I know I could use something like the
>56303 or Sharc, but I am a hardware dude).  I think it would be able to
>put 256 24 bit oscilators, a 16x16 multilplier and 256 16 bit envelope
>generators in a single device, probably the EP1K100000.  Speed?  This
>part should be able to do all this at a 96KHz sample rate.  The primary
>things I am thinking of is doing additive and/or Phase Modulation
>synthesys.  I think I have even figured out a simple way of doing
>different algorithms in the chip to accomplish different things...
>    Anyway, this is a long way off.  Got to finish my current big
>projects.

You do have a copy of Hal Chamberlain's "Musical Applications of
Microprocessors," right?  I think a lot of the techniques covered in there
would be just as valid in logic as they are in software.  

I just got ahold of a copy, and have been re-reading all of the background
information.  Lots of things we've all seen before, but the occasional
little bits & pieces that I'd not been familiar with...

Byron Jacquot