[sdiy] Interesting article on top octave generators.

[Roman]

Following that route - why not make TOG replacement which produses exact frequencies of tonewheels, or better yet, switchable frequencies of every historical or another weird scales?
Frankly, using RP2040 for 6 tone TOG is not so impressive to make video about it. Microcontroller based TOG replacements are available for decades now. 

Roman 


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> I agree that it does seem a bit crazy to replace some basic logic with a whole uP, but the arguments for doing it are pretty convincing. Doing twelve 9-bit dividers in hardware is going to be a lot of chips, whereas the uP is only one. That makes it much easier to fit inside whatever it is you're fixing. And it's cheaper - a boardful of simple logic costs *more* than a processor these days because of the economies of scale. It *is* crazy to use a million transistors when 10,000 would do, but when they all come on one chip and costs pennies, it starts to make a lot of sense.
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> It terms of the technological limitations, all of the uP-based divider solutions I've seen are pretty much exact clones and just as limited as the original chips! They certainly keep the original division ratios and consequent frequency error.
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> There are a few original divider chips out there, but the people that have them want $30 a chip or worse for them. $1 processor wins over that every time.
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