<div dir="auto">Or unless you wanted to make it possible to sequence parameters differently for different notes.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Same timbre or not - that is the question.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">:-)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/mr</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den tors 4 apr. 2019 20:53 <<a href="mailto:paula@synth.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">paula@synth.net</a>> skrev:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Unless you wanted to make it multi-timbral.<br>
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On 2019-04-04 19:29, Richie Burnett wrote:<br>
> Very true.<br>
> <br>
> And Neil has a good point that not all CVs are unique to each synth<br>
> voice in a polysynth, so they can be connected to a common analogue CV<br>
> line. It would make little sense writing the same value multiple times<br>
> to the same parameter register in each voice chip if everything was<br>
> handled digitally over something like SPI.<br>
> <br>
> -Richie,<br>
> <br>
> Sent from my Xperia SP on O2<br>
> <br>
> ---- Tim Ressel wrote ----<br>
> <br>
>> you can get an 8-channel 8-bit DAC with SPI for about $2. no need to<br>
>> muck about with muxes.<br>
>> <br>
>> --timmers<br>
>> <br>
>> On 4/4/2019 5:14 AM, Neil Johnson wrote:<br>
>>> Hi Rich,<br>
>>> <br>
>>>> When I saw "Microprocessor controllable..." in the datasheets for <br>
>>>> these<br>
>>>> CEM chips I was initially expecting to see an SPI interface! :-(<br>
>>> Indeed not, as they say (AS3394E):<br>
>>> <br>
>>>> Thus interface to a microprocessor system may be accomplished simply <br>
>>>> with a single DAC, 4051-type CMOS multiplexer, and 8 hold <br>
>>>> capacitors.<br>
>>> That said, for a polyphonic synth it is actually quite useful to have<br>
>>> voltage control of these parameters, in EGs for example, where each<br>
>>> parameter is common across all voices so you hang the controls off a<br>
>>> voltage bus. For example this is how the Siel Opera6 does things,<br>
>>> with all the SSM EGs driven off common voltages for the A, D, S and <br>
>>> R.<br>
>>> If you did this with SPI then you would either need some sort of<br>
>>> addressing scheme (in that case use I2C), OR you end up with a huge<br>
>>> mass of slave select lines!! And you've now increased the cost of <br>
>>> the<br>
>>> silicon by putting logic (another voltage rail) and some number of<br>
>>> DACs plus reference on the die.<br>
>>> <br>
>>> Cheers,<br>
>>> Neil<br>
>> <br>
>> --<br>
>> --Tim Ressel<br>
>> Circuit Abbey<br>
>> <a href="mailto:timr@circuitabbey.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">timr@circuitabbey.com</a><br>
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