[sdiy] TC5514 polysix memory...upgrade?

[Bob Weigel]

No it has an 8 bit dac as I recall.  They just did that on the memory 
for whatever reason.

Tom Wiltshire wrote:

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> On 4 May 2008, at 19:42, Bob Weigel wrote:
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>> yeah they were a little skimpy on the memory.  Seems crazy that  they 
>> didn't just make it 8 bit with twice the memory.  Chips were  spendy 
>> back then but people would have dug the product way more if  it had 
>> 64 instead of 32 patches too.
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> The use of 4-bit memory makes me wonder about the control resolution.  
> It never seemed much good playing with the Polysix, and I know that  
> on the Poly61 (where the resolution is explicit because of the  
> digital display) it was really poor.
> Am I to take it that the Polysix stores most parameters to 4-bit  
> accuracy?
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