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

[Rainer Buchty]

> And you'd probably, maybe perhaps, want to use a few samples. 4kB 
> isn't going to fly unless you're doing some kind of S+S thing.

Oh, 4kB is enough for quite some stuff. Of course not the Bösendorfer or 
anything "real acoustic", but as a starting wave for *synthesis* it's 
enough. Take PPG, the old Ensoniqs, or just the good old days of Amiga 
Soundtracking where the samples even stood for themselves.

With a total of let's say 128kB of memory you have a nice basic set of 
waveforms and it'll still take you just 48 seconds to transmit that lot 
over MIDI. My laptop takes almost longer to recover from hibernation...

> You'd be better off building in a hard disk and using that instead.

If you don't want to go for gigasampling, I'd favor CompactFlash or MMC 
cards. 32MB are dirt cheap nowadays (and even bigger are not that costly 
anymore) and you don't need to care about extra 12V for drive motors, 
and a stronger PSU.

> Personally I'd still rather use Reaktor to do all of this stuff. But 
> that's just me.

Well, that would be the easy way :)

Rainer