[sdiy] Generating a large number of CV outputs

[Mattias Rickardsson]

Den sön 10 dec. 2023 19:31Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl> skrev:

> Hi Mattias,
>
> Is this is the message you are quoting?
> https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/2023-December/132104.html If
> so, I do not see it in my copy of the message, nor in the Archive. So it
> could be something in your mail client? Or forwarder? ;-)
>

Touché!!!  :'-D

/mr - not referring to the Buchla



> On 10 Dec 2023, at 13:03, Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> PS: on the topic of strangenesses in emails, what's the cause of the
> inserted  [exclamation point + newline + whitespace]  in long paragraphs?
> See:
>
>
> ... as a message comes in, rather than a DAC that needs a continuous data
>> stream (usually fed from a waveform buffer). DAC chips that operate on a
>> fixed sample rate require a clock signal as part of the serial bus that
>> they use, whereas DAC chips that are flexible about fixed or variable
>> sample!
>>   rate do not need a clock, per se, because they have a "convert" signal
>> to load each new value. There is clearly some overlap in the design here,
>> but the point is that you want to think about what the CPU is required to
>> do to feed the DAC. In general, a DAC that is capable of variable...
>
>
> ... CODEC without each signal interfering with the other. But that's an
>> example of way too many bits in each word and way too many data transfers
>> per conversion to be an effici!
>>  ent model. Your CPU will run out of power an order of magnitude faster
>> with this approach.
>>
>
>
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