Midi synth chips

[banneduser]

I had a quick search and it looks as though you have not come across the ATMEL range of midi chips,check out thier site under multimedia, look for ATSAM2913 etc

Enjoy

[stryd_one]

Thanks for the ad pau. ;) I've seen those and I'm curious but that's a big project and I'm wrapped up right now. I do think they were mentioned a year or more ago, quite a long time back.... Almost surely on the old forum.

[banneduser]

Hi.

Some of these chips are interesting (ATSAM3108 - 8 chan Audio DSP anyone), but the others are rather lame. Making a DIY GM compatible synth isn't really worth it in my book. Even SDIYers are rather using the "raw computing power" of other Atmel chips, than DSP solutions.

One reason is that microcontroller chips are usually available in DIY friendly thru-hole packages and these dedicated DSPs are only in some nearly impossible to solder SMD packages.

Moebius