[sdiy] has anyone ever made their own Nord Modular?

[James Patchell]

You know....in general...it costs a lot more to DIY than to just 
buy...(cost is not the reason I DIY...I DIY because it is fun...and keeps 
me off the streets)....

For digital stuff...even though it looks "inexpensive"...it is really just 
as expensive as analog.  A 1.5 Million Gate FPGA may cost $50 (this is REAL 
cheap)....but the software to develop applications with is $1500....

Your main expense with DSP is going to be the cost of the compiler...and 
the 1 man year or so it is going to take you to write the software...(I am 
willing to be that the Nord Modular has close to 5 man years in it).

You can balance cost vs fun by trying to find as much free ware as 
possible...and to tell you the truth...here is an opportunity for you to 
fill a huge gap in the DIY world :-)

         -Jim

At 02:39 PM 10/21/2005 -0700, Danjel van Tijn wrote:
>The Chameleon looks good but it is as expensive as buying a Nord G2 engine.
>With everything I build, one of my primary concerns is cost... DIY to 
>create a piece of gear I could not afford.
>
>I looked at the Analog Devices Ez-kit... it costs around $250 which is ok 
>but nto a greta price for a DSP board that is 3 years old. Again, a Nord 
>micromodular seems like a better deal in comparison.
>
>Any other options?
>
>
>cheers,
>     Danjel
>
>On 10/21/05, Jay Vaughan <<mailto:jv at access-music.de>jv at access-music.de> 
>wrote:
>> >the cameleon hardware 
>> <<http://www.soundart-hot.com/>http://www.soundart-hot.com/>
>> >is not open sourced but 
>> <<http://www.entitysynth.net/>http://www.entitysynth.net/> that run on it is.
>>
>>the chameleon *is* mostly an open source product; you don't have to
>>open source your skins, but the good ones (like entity as you
>>mention) are open source, and there is lots of stuff to play with
>>both on the code and strictly-play side of the fence ..
>>
>>--
>>
>>;
>>
>>Jay Vaughan

         -Jim
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