[sdiy] Anadigm...

[Barry Klein]

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For the record....
Barry


From: Support [mailto:support at anadigm.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:30 PM
To: Barry Klein
Subject: RE: music synth designs

Hi Barry,
 
We did not find an email in our achieves with your name or address during
2010 or 2009.
Below is the email we have been sending out to prospective Analog
synthesizer enquiries.
Anadigm will not re-start this project until we have a solid commercial
partner.
 
Regards Anadigm Support
 
The following test is a cut and paste that we have been sending to all  who
have enquired about a synthesizer in the past few years.
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We build a prototype Analog Synthesizer and demonstrated it several  years
ago.
The analog hardware is simple, we used one Anadigm IC (AN221E04) per Voice
and another AN221E04 as a mixer, we built a 2 voice synthesizer. The
software used to control the synthesizer is not simple. For the demo we used
Anadigm development kit PCB's, a parallel interface from a PC, two active
studio monitor and a powered subwoofer.

Let me summarize the history associated with Anadigm's Synthesizer. 
The project was part of our customer support activity, the partner we were
working with unfortunately passed and the project has not been active for
several years.

The synthesizer project was a huge software undertaking, Our support team
(with a lot of help from Anadigm's software development team and our lead
customer) had a lot of fun getting it to a functional demo, there is at
least 18 man months of C++ software written. Because it's a fun and
challenging project a large proportion of Anadigm's engineering effort got
involved in it, it became a consumer of too much resource. Without an end
customer contributing Audio engineering expertise, adopting and taking over
the software development Anadigm's management was forced to stop the
project. Anadigm is a semiconductor company, we focus on the manufacture and
application support for our FPAA devices. the synthesizer was taking over
the entire company engineering resources, resources needed for our primary
product.

Several dozen individuals have asked if Anadigm will gift this synthesizer
to them since the time the project stopped, to date this has not been done.
The reason for not doing so one of self preservation, Anadigm does not have
the software engineering resources that would be needed to support the
transfer of this project, we have not been convinced that the specific
people who asked had the resources and skills to take this project and run
with it alone.
I will add that today Anadigm has a smaller Software engineering department
than it had 5 years ago and that the engineers who wrote this synthesizer
software are no longer with Anadigm.

OK, that described the situation, what next. 
Are you intending to build a commercial Analog Synthesizer as a musical
instrument, or something similar ?  
Do you have the engineering resources and a business plan which would
support taking such a Demo and commercializing it?  

Anadigm's support team currently try's to provide direct and personalized
support and examples, generic reference design information never quiet fit
the requirements.
We can support you in the design of an analog waveform synthesizer from a
blank piece of paper, or starting with your Analog circuit architecture
using our FPAA technology, past experience and your software engineering.
We can also discuss re-using the existing Anadigm Synthesizer bearing in
mind what's written above. 

Please let us know a little more about your intentions and potentially how
we could work together or assist further, if you prefer to discuss this by
phone please let us have a number and we will call you.

Regards Simon
For Anadigm Support
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Klein [mailto:Barry.L.Klein at wdc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:50 PM
To: support at anadigm.com
Subject: music synth designs
I have read that you guys had some music synth designs ongoing using your
chips.
The last update I have is over a year ago.
Has anything transpired since?  I don't see examples on your site.

Barry