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ComputerVoltageSources@yahoogroups.com, David Cornutt
<cornutt@...> wrote:
>
> Okay, it's a heresy, but someone's gotta ask:
>
> Does the Speakjet really belong in a module that is otherwise
> dedicated to being a control voltage processor?
>
I'm not going to argue either way. I added it to my PSIM because I
had two unused pins that weren't commited. I haven't figured out much
to do with it as a speech synthesizer. However, I just bought a
TTS256 chip which should make it a lot easier to program. Prior to my
display I was using it for monitoring controls and signals.
The one fun thing I did was to synthesize voice to feed into my
vocoder. I thought that was a bit circular - using a synthesized
voice to vocally synthesize a synthesizer.
However, I don't think of my module as just a control voltage
processor. It's a general purpose module; I just can't process real-
time audio. My trig-gate-cv program is a good example. I sample and
save gate, CV, and (implied) trigger, along with their timestamps into
a 128 event queue. Then I send all three events out a specific time
later (1 to 10 seconds). My arpeggiate program monitors a CV. If it
remains stable for a specified time, then I output an arpgeggiation
sequence. I can record up to 100 events for a user-defined sequence.
I think of both these programs as more than just a control voltage
processor.
For grins I added an audio processing routine to the arpeggiator and
made a stand-alone bass-line generator. I programmed in the bass line
to Rider on the Storm. It only outputs square waves, but what the
heck.
Dave