[sdiy] REVIEW: Beat707 Arduino Drum Sequencer

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 06:10 -0700, MTG wrote:
> Curious that they wouldn't just program at the microcontroller level and 
> ditch the Arduino "compiler".
> 
> GB
> www.musictechnologiesgroup.com

It's just avr-gcc.  If you can do it with avr-gcc you can do it with the
Arduino environment, mostly.  It includes in some boilerplate so you
don't have to pratt about setting up commonly-used parts of the AVR
environment, but beyond that there's nothing magic about it.

If you want to use Arduino sketches but you don't like the Java IDE (I
don't; I have a P4 3GHz with 2G of RAM, no chance of that ever running
Java in any meaningful way) then you can use arscons and any editor you
like:
http://code.google.com/p/arscons/

I'm curious as to why anyone would go to the trouble and expense of
buying an ATMega 328, flashing STK500 into it, getting a crystal, making
a board, and finding some sort of USB-to-serial bridge when you can buy
an Arduino for a tenner.

Gordon MM0YEQ