[sdiy] Patchable polyphonic synth with FM or AM transmission idea

[oren levy]

I think you’d be better off using FPGAs so you can mux the signals however you want along with data. Either a bunch of small ones or one big one per module. 
If you just want to share audio and don’t want to mess around with FPGAs, you can probably use a protocol like MADI. Not sure if MADI has a DC coupling requirement but if not, CV could also be passed. 
You’d probably want a very stable clock to sync all the modules to and optimize clock phase delays so everything can mux/demux in sync.

Rock & Roll,
Oren Levy

> On Dec 25, 2018, at 10:01, Mike Beauchamp <list at mikebeauchamp.com> wrote:
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>> transmission. In a 16 voice system, at about 5 output functions per
>> module, and 12 modules, you can easily use up ~1000 of those, which
>> drops the price to $4. I was wondering what everyone thinks about this
>> sort of scheme.
> 
> So there's $4000 worth of just one IC in a single complete polysynth?
> 
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