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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">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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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>
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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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