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Floating an idea...

Floating an idea...

2014-02-28 by Michael Hawkins

The HAWK is nice. But the right way to have done it would have been to simply remove the CPU (80C85) and replace it with a high performance CPU module. I am now working on a new product totally unrelated to music synthesis. But the process has led me to believe that I ought to float the idea of producing a brand new HAWK 2.0 based upon a much better CPU.

The only way I will do this is if I have support from other people who can write C. Because it will be a big effort to rewrite all of the code into C.

The benefit of using a STM32 type processor is that there will be endless opportunities to improve the synth and the performance (especially those slow EG's) would be dramatically improved.

Who has C programming experience that would be willing to commit time to such a project? Put your hands up.

Mike

RE: Floating an idea...

2014-02-28 by <josh.nursing@...>

Michael, that would be a great way to go: the STM32 line is very powerful. You could look into the Teensy++ MCU boards as well. The latter is already being used for a new Prophet 600 control core. Chip, alias Synth Hacker has used an Arduino Mega board to replace the Korg Polysix Key Assigner.

I can code in C, so if time allows, I could contribute.

Yash