Perhaps this is slightly off on a tangent, but I picked up a book on CSound
last night. Included was a 2CD set, which includes some Karplus-Strong
instruments, if I understood it correctly. And apparently you can port
CSound to many different processors and DSP chips. I don't know if that
includes PICs.
--PBr
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> Subject:FW: [motm] Karplus-Strong Synthesis
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> Cool, I wonder if a PIC processor could handle the job as an MOTM
> module...?
>
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> well, many years back, my friend jack deckard had implemented it on a
> "singleboard" micro ( a paia 8700 ) and liked it enough that he worked
> out
> some of the details for making up a v.c. module to do it. he had an
> article
> on some of those ideas printed in "polyphony", so there is some info on
> the
> subject out there......
> even such a rudimentary setup produced amazing plucked tones and if you
> fed
> real digitized sounds into the memory, it produced some strange effects.
> jack
> didn`t do this if i recall correctly ( gotta dig out that magazine ! )
> but i
> had read about others using the technique in a more computer oriented
> setting
> doing so ( like paul berg formerly of the institute of sonology in the
> netherlands ).
>