Next Project

[Jeroen Proveniers]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: patchell [mailto:patchell at silcom.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 3:51 PM
> To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
> Subject: Next Project
> 
> 
>     I am afraid I am being drawn down the dark path of digital.
> (auugghh!!)
> 
>     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.

When you're ready to go digital, there's a mailing list devoted to DSP for
musical applications, called music-dsp.

http://shoko.calarts.edu/musicdsp/

Don't forget that digital has problems of its own, which analogue doesn't
have, aliasing for example. Osc's must be bandlimited etc.

JJ