[sdiy] Appearance of many SSM2300 chips

[Andre Majorel]

On 2011-05-29 00:13 +0100, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> Secondly, is such a chip actually useful any more? It seems to
> me that it probably isn't. Using a single DAC with
> multiplexers is a bit redundant in this age of many
> multichannel DACs, and this particular multiplexer doesn't
> seem to have sufficient accuracy to make you have second
> thoughts ("High accuracy: 8-bits absolute, 12 bit linearity"
> they say in the datasheet).

What's in an N-channel DAC ? Is it N DACs or 1 DAC and an N-to-1
demultiplexer ? If the VCOs of a polyphonic synth are driven by
different DACs, the conversion errors will sometimes add up.
It's not like the equal temperament scale is too much in tune to
begin with...

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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/