MOTM

The Xilinx stuff sounds really exciting! I'm curious to see how others
react, but a 1U DX sounds COMPLETELY BITCHIN' to me.  As does the
Cloud Generator and the Granular Synth that I didn't hear you mention :)

Mike

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@a...> wrote:
> a) my mother-in-law is having major surgery tomorrow AM and so this
week has 
> been/will be light on the MOTM aspect. Paul H's family is battling
the flu as 
> well.
> 
> b) I did ship out the CEM chip backlog (a 2 year high!) today, so
that means 
> next up is the (in)famous MOTM-480 manual AND building remaining VCO
kits to 
> ship the backlog.
> 
> The pacing item for doing the VCO kits is the Tempco resistor. I am
low and more 
> are due by the 18th. So, the VCO kits will take a few more weeks to
100% ship 
> out to everyone, and a few Tempcos are also slated for the '480 kits.
> 
> c) If you are interested in what the 'future of MOTM' a la digital
modules goes, 
> go to www.xilinx.com and look at the Spartan 3 stuff. I ordered the
development 
> software today for the chip AND the DSP option AND the 32-bit RISC
processor 
> (MicroBlaze). The MOTM-520 Cloud Generator will be implemented in this 
> technology along with other oddball stuff (DX-7 module in 1U?)
> 
> I'm NOT abandoning analog: but I AM going to do some (cough) digital
stuff 
> because this family of chips will allow *cost effective* solutions
that if you 
> spend the $99 on the dev board and learn the tools, what can be done
is pretty 
> astonishing. I'm talking the ENTIRE Synergy II on a $15 chip. Or
maybe a 
> 32-voice Prophet VS/Korg WaveStation type synth. $15 chip. Well, and
about $50 
> of other stuff :) DACs and the like.
> 
> Paul S.