[sdiy] Spin Semiconductor FV-1, anyone?

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 28 Oct 2008, at 20:07, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
> On a related note - one thing I remember seeing sometime in the  
> past was a teardown on the Alesis Micron low-cost analog modeling  
> synth. If I recall correctly, it was basically a gang of 8 AL3201  
> chips with a separate controller to manage them all. If the FV-1  
> could be employed in a similar way you could do some pretty nifty  
> stuff with it...

Cunning! I like it!
If you did it that way with the Spin FV1, you'd even get 3 CV inputs  
(or knobs) per section. That could make quite an interesting piece of  
hardware.

However, AL3201 uses codec interfaces to talk to ADC/DAC, so you've  
got digital audio in and out from the chip. FV1 only has analog in/ 
out as far as I can tell. Makes it simpler for what it is designed  
for, but if you wanted to put a lot of them in a long chain, your  
poor signal would get converted from digital to analogue and then  
back again a *lot* of times before you were done...

T.