I use to lurk around here, but this is the first time I'm posting to the forum. And an off topic post at that... Oh well... I've been looking at the opl3 and sid projects, and I was daydreaming about designing a midibox based synth with some modern microcontroller(s) working as a programmable synthesis engine. Now, I know next to nothing about microcontrollers, but I suppose nowadays one can get a reasonably priced chip strong enough to run a digital synth... Say, a dx-7 alike, or perhaps a waldorf-like wavetable synth. I was wondering if you nice people could point me to what you think might be an appropriate microcontroller for this sort of project. Something versatile, fast enough and powerful enough for the task, not too expensive and easy to integrate on a midibox project. Ideally it should be easy to program with C/C++, too. Any suggestions? Thanks, pedro
