[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[James Patchell]

At 12:05 PM 1/8/2004 -0500, RevTor at aol.com wrote:

>so guys, all this talk of programable logic and "brute force" stuff 
>getting so cheap...
>
>how can it (or anything new) be applied to make new analog 
>toys???  besides 5.1 surround (which would be a cool module....)
>Paul, you once dreamed of a programmable modular with a bus style 
>backplane or something TITAN you were going to call (?) it but it was $$ 
>back before MOTM (??97-98?)  would this be more feasible today?
>what about today?    the state of the art in opamps and IC's and 
>microprocessors fueled the programmable polysynths of the 80's, now the 
>computing power per dollar and DSP is fueling all the VA's and softsynths, 
>I guess today all the $$ is in tiny chips for celphones and flat tv's and 
>market driven make me vomit me too technology..  booring stuff....   how 
>can we apply whats new and hot to analog synths?? is there just too much 
>of a gap?
>I really have no clue as to whats out there today on the periphery, Im 
>still trying to catch up with 70's tech.....
>anyone care to comment?
>are us through-hole dinosaurs destined for extinction? Say it aint so!!!!
>Anyone?
>FPGA's programmable as CEM style synths on a chip?
>just a fun topic Id like to hear more about....

         Well, I can easily see the XC3S400 being able to "emulate" at 
least 256 oscillators and 256 multi mode filters and 512 envelope 
generators (VCAs too), all at one time...in fact, if anything, I am 
probably underestimating.  The part seems to be capable of clocking at 
200MHz,  the part should be able to do all that in about 1.3 micro 
seconds....kinda gives you an idea of the power we are talking about.


>~Steve M

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