[sdiy] Looking for DSP development system

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "David J. Hughes" <hughes_david_j at btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Looking for DSP development system
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 10:59:07 +0000
Message-ID: <BC94497B.37C1%hughes_david_j at btopenworld.com>

> Hello,
> 
> john mahoney <jmahoney at gate.net> wrote :
> 
> > I suppose that you're familiar with the SoundArt Chameleon?
> > http://www.soundart-hot.com/english/index.htm
> > Not an SBC, strictly speaking (although it may be an SBC inside the rack
> > unit).
> 
> > It may be more cost-effective from the software side than other
> > approaches -- that depends on where you think the development issues lie. Of
> > course the marketing factors are another story. (E.g., are you aiming to
> > produce a standalone device, or is the Chameleon a viable platform?)
> 
> I fairly familiar with the Chameleon. The project I'm looking at is for a
> stand-alone synth capable of at least 24 voice polyphony. I'm not sure if
> the Chameleon is up to that.

24 voices of what? If it is squarewave oscillators with gated signals, I think
many DSPs/CPUs/FPGAs is up to it. If you want a x-voices synth to fit in a
chip, you should tell what each voice contains, since that could be from very
simple to very complex (think about having vocoder, frequency shifting,
reverb individually on each voice makes it much "fatter" in footpring than a
simple SEM/ASM-style synth).

Cheers,
Magnus