[sdiy] My first big project

[Paul Maddox]

David,

> It would be nice to add some rotary conytrollers/automation midi cc
automation, but I will start as simple as possible.

good idea :-)

> I don't want to spend a fortune on development tools, do you think a PIC
is enough for this task? Also I would prefer C over
>assembly. Anyone with experience who can reccomend a PIC, a compiler,
memory modules, lcd display etc.

as Jeff said, the AVR range is good, they're cheap and have a host of nice
features built in, most iportantly for your application is a hardware UART,
along with an 8 Channel ADC..
You can get several C compilers, GCC being the free one, Codevision
(http://www.hpinfotech.ro) which is a good price and a superb compiler, all
the way to ImageCraft (more expensive than codevision).
I use CodeVision C compiler and have always found it superb and easy to
use... Also the support is excellent. The Monowave was my first C program
and was written using CodeVision.
You can buy it in two versions lite and standard, lite will do for the basic
range of atmel micros, but for the MEGA range you need teh standard version.
Both Imagecraft and CodeVision have downloadable trial versions for you to
play with.

there are lists for atmel, and for CodeVision/Image craft.
Also as jeff said there is quite a big avr site at www.avrfreaks.net , I
wrote an article for them on Midi with the AVR (assembly language) and there
are several people on the list using AVRs , so you shouldn't have a problem
getting help on here.

Paul
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