[sdiy] DIY Polysynths

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net wrote:

> Colin,
>> But building 6 DIY voice boards will cost you 6 times the cost of a single
>> DIY voice board, plus there is the extra effort for the common circuitry to
>> drive them all as one.
> Ermmm <points to scotts FPGA Synth and Phoenix>
> Not always

That is a bit cheating imo. Might as well consider software plugins DIY 
then :).

> Hmmm, I think for at least voice assigner, I'd Agree. But you don't need to 
> go nuts with micro control, get a polyDAC, build four voices and you're off.
> With micro's getting smaller, cheaper and simpler, and coding them also 
> gettign simpler, I really don't see why it's an issue.

I agree. With modern C(++) compilers available and MCUs being quite fast 
now, it's not particularly hard to do simple stuff.

Antti

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