[sdiy] sdiy dsp board?

[Metrophage]

--- asfi at eol.ca wrote:

> Unfortunately, the "EZKIT Lite" used to be US$89 (a decent deal for
> a demoboard complete with some software) but now it's US$245. Still,
> in these days of nonexistent lifecycles, I'm amazed that something
> that came out in Windows 3.1 days is still around:

That was a weird decision on behalf of ADI. I figure they'd quit making
the board and liquidate them for cheap, moving on to their more recent
DSPs. I was deciding to buy a kit during the window of a few months
when the price increase was announced, but was not able to save the
money in time.

> ....or you could also get one of the newer development kits from ADI.
> I see they've got something called a "Melody 32 Multichannel Audio
> Evaluation Board" which could be fun to play with. (ADI's website --
> or something along the way -- has just developed some constipation 
> so I can't check further...)

It wouldn't surprise me if the Melody 32 never quite made it out to the
real world. In the late '90s ADI seemed to entertain dreams of seducing
big manufacturers of consumer devices with these sort of half-pre-made
"applications". Lots of glossy web pages but they only wanted to talk
turkey for very big $$. I remember their Melody 32 pages. AND I
remember my correspondance with ADI when they were still trying to push
their XTCsound - a version of CSound running on a PCI DSP card. I was
bouncing my application ideas off of Singaram Jayakumar, who was
running the XTCsound project at the time. They didn't understand or
believe my ideas, and would not even talk about selling a development
kit to me. They were probably hoping to entice big manufacturers...
probably the same ones who were supposed to be interested in using
"MPEG4 Structured Audio"! And where is XTCsound now? Dead.

Oh well!
CJ


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