[sdiy] DSP kits (was: Re: has anyone ever made their own Nord Modular?)

[Rainer Buchty]

> It's slower than a slow thing from the Galaxy of Slowness after an 
> invasion by evil killer Slowmonsters.

Just use shorter samples.

Art of Noise was way more creative with sampling technology than most of 
today's musicians with literally Gigabytes of samples at their hands.

If using a simple 7+1 scheme, i.e. after 7 7-bit packets comes the 8th 
packet containing the missing 8th bits, you get around 2734 bytes 
(3125*7/8) per second without further encoding tricks.

Nothing you want to transmit 1MB of data over (384 seconds), but for 
average samples we considered sufficient 20 years ago it's just a 
measly 1.5 (4kB) to manageable 24 (64kB) seconds. 

I mean ... If all you want to do is sample playback, than you don't need 
a DSP machine. The home PC fill fit in nicely.

Rainer