[sdiy] Using analog for physical modeling

[Noah Vawter]

On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Paul Perry wrote:

> I've seen the original "bucket brigade" paper... it was designed to provide delays of signals in analog computers back in the 1950s. But, being made of discrete components you didn't get much delay in a practical application.
> 
> Turning the whole business on its head, I have often wished there was a digital look-alike module to replace all those fragile and/or unobtanium BBDs in guitar fx. What would be the 'best' (cost, size, low parts) way to go about mainng an all-digital BBD look-alike?


I'd say FV-1 is worth a glance.  Approx $10/chip, including onchip codec.  



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