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<p>I wonder what products these devices are used in.<br>
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<p>Seems you can buy modules with Dream chips from a place called
serdashop, e.g.</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.serdashop.com/waveblaster">https://www.serdashop.com/waveblaster</a><br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.serdashop.com/DreamBlasterX2">https://www.serdashop.com/DreamBlasterX2</a></p>
<p>though some of them say this:</p>
<p>"WARNING: This product may not be installed in any musical
instrument. Using this product in the manufacture of musical
instruments or selling this product for use in a musical
instrument is a violation of the intellectual property rights of
Roland Corporation and will result in liability for infringement."</p>
<p>They also have a parallel port, OPL3 FM synthesizer soundcard,
lol! I guess they're made for retro gaming? <br>
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<p>Martin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/01/2022 13:33, Steve Lenham
wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">You can theoretically buy the Dream
ICs and associated development boards from distributor Profusion
in the UK:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.profusionplc.com/type/dsp-audio?mnf=dream"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.profusionplc.com/type/dsp-audio?mnf=dream</a></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">However, none of them can be ordered
online (unlike the rest of Profusion's offerings) and instead
one is invited to contact them directly. Perhaps I'm wrong, but
this says to me that there are hidden criteria that must be met
before one will be allowed to buy Dream products. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This plus the fact that, despite
being around in some form since at least 1990 (the Evolution
EVS1, released that year, was based around a SAMxxxx IC, and the
SAM8905 appears in Barry Klein's Music IC Datasheet book), they
have a profile lower than a snake's belly, indicates that they
know very well who they want to deal with, that they are already
dealing with them and that everyone else can take a hike.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Of course, if your products are good
enough then you earn the right to do what you please...</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Cheers,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Steve L.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/01/2022 18:34, Blender via
Synth-diy wrote:<br>
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<div>thanks everybody, OF COURSE i finally found it myself 5
minutes after sending this email out... its DREAMs SAM chips
from france. I also finally found some old emails i tried
sending them, without any response. and it still is really
hard to find any kind of information or even shops for these
chips, eve though i am pretty sure they are being used in
quite a lot of commercial products. looks like ATMEL might
have bought the company in the meantime? or at least they
also offer similar series of SAM-named synthesis SOCs. i
reached out via email (for the third time over 2 years...)
to see if they respond.</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.dream.fr/devices.html#S5"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.dream.fr/devices.html#S5</a></div>
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<div>but yeah, thanks for your guys input as well, consider
this case close - <i>unless</i> someon has experience with
those chips and is willing to share some information<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 6:02
PM MTG <<a href="mailto:grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">grant@musictechnologiesgroup.com</a>>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This is NOT the chip you
are looking for, but in the interest of adding <br>
this rompler to the mailing list archives I give you an OLD
chip:<br>
<br>
SGS Thomson M114S Digital Sound Generator<br>
<a
href="http://elektronikjk.pl/elementy_czynne/IC/M114S.pdf"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://elektronikjk.pl/elementy_czynne/IC/M114S.pdf</a><br>
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On 1/8/2022 8:46 AM, Blender via Synth-diy wrote:<br>
> Hello fellow builders,<br>
><br>
> 1-2 years ago i discovered this chip (or was it a pcb
module?) by a <br>
> specialized manufacturer that allowed for rather
complex sample <br>
> playback (ie. with multi-sampling, envelopes etc etc)
that came with <br>
> quite a big integrated memory (at least 4gb and 8gb
options iirc). <br>
> Now, my degrading brain unfortunately forgot the name
of the company, <br>
> and i also fail to find anything in my browser
histories... spent a <br>
> few hours today trying to google it to no success.<br>
><br>
> i am pretty sure the same or at least a similar chip is
used in the <br>
> v3sound expander modules:<br>
> <a
href="https://www.v3sound.com/de/d-produkt-sonority-xxl.html"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.v3sound.com/de/d-produkt-sonority-xxl.html</a><br>
><br>
> on my search today i came across <a
href="https://www.vlsi.fi" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.vlsi.fi</a>
which is similar, <br>
> but not it. i do think to remember that the company had
an "f" in <br>
> their name, maybe "fun" or "cool"? obviously its not
coolaudio though. <br>
> pretty sure i was on the (chinese?) OEM manufacturer
site at some point.<br>
><br>
> does anybody have a clue?<br>
><br>
> best,<br>
> philip</blockquote>
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