[sdiy] Sound synthesis with microcontrollers

[Trevor Page]

Hi,

I have worked with both AVR and PIC, and I think it is also worth giving
Microchip PICs a looking into. The new 18Fxxx series, such as the 18F452
or better, are very fast, are crammed with peripheral features, have
some nice additions to the instruction set, DO have a single-instruction
hardware multiply, and do NOT have the horrible bank changing to access
various registers anymore. 

Microchip are also bringing out their dsPIC range soon, which will be
very interesting to play with. All of my cheap PIC programming tools and
software are ready to work with them. 

Not saying they are better than AVRs or Atmel 8051 clones or whatever -
they're just a good alternative worth considering. 

Cheers

Trev


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of 
> Jaroslaw Ziembicki
> Sent: 28 June 2003 12:33
> To: Tim Parkhurst
> Cc: SDIY
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Sound synthesis with microcontrollers
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Parkhurst" <tparkhurst at siliconbandwidth.com>
> To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>; "'Jaroslaw Ziembicki'"
> <aon.912230836 at aon.at>
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:19 PM
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Sound synthesis with microcontrollers
> 
> 
> > DEFINITELY interested. I'm just getting started with AVR 
> programming and I
> > would love to see schematics and code for this. Sounds like 
> a fun little
> > project!
> >
> > Tim Servo
> >
> > "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
> 
> 
> 
> I think you can start by building an experimental board with 
> a AT90S8535,
> ATmega163
> or similar. Then add a 16 bit DAC (I built mine with 2xHC574 
> and a resistor
> ladder)...
> 
> 
> Regards
> Jarek
> 
> 
> 
>