[sdiy] Atmel "Dream Synthesizer"

[Paul Schreiber]

DREAM is a French company that licensed the "sound set" and the 'engine' core to
Atmel. Crystal Semi used to have a DREAM (yes, all caps) chip set in the
mid-90s. They sounded really good, haven't heard one in 8 years or so. Back
then, the emphasis was compression of the GM sounds into a single 1MB ROM.

I think that you have to sign a load of NDAs to get them, though.


Paul S.

> It's Atmel, it's a synthesizer, it's digital, and I thought maybe this might
> be of interest (especially to the digital/DSP/wavetable crowd). The name is
> pretty goofy but they've got some nifty development boards, including some
> with built in A/D and D/A converters. Yes, it looks like it's aimed mostly
> at sound cards and cell phones (no flame threads, please), but it still
> looked interesting. Maybe the sound cards and devel systems could be hacked.
>
> http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/devices.asp?family_id=618
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> http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools.asp?family_id=618
>
>
>
> Tim (wants a rack with 10 MIDI controlled cell phones) Servo
>
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
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