[sdiy] Re: FPGA 2-OP FM MIDI Polysynth

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net> wrote:
>Rainer Buchty wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 May 2009, Donald Tillman wrote:
>> 
>>> (The DX-7 stored the log(sin()) values in the sine lookup tables, and 
>>> the rest should be obvious.)
>> 
>> Neat. This is the kind of thinking which is definitely missing today 
>> with plenty of computing power and memory around...
>
>Kids these days just don't appreciate how hard it used to be. :)

I'm not that young (c: ...

>Don't worry - just because we've got easy access to multipliers doesn't 
>mean our brains have all gone soft. There are plenty of new hacks to be 
>done - just further up the food chain.

Truly, and that's why I like to learn about such things as Don pointed out.

Even with a score of multipliers, there's always going to be that "If I had _one_ more
multiplier" situation, if such clever techniques are understood, one can sometimes
deal with those scenarios using lesser hardware.  I know a few such tricks (shifting
is an obvious one), but it can't hurt to learn more of them.

-- ScottG
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