Just curious about the Dream chip from Atmel.
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/devic ... ily_id=618
I used to own a Game Teather 64 sound card, which used DLS bank of sounds, and had a great sound. It was years ago, and I even made songs using only the card and Cakewalk Pro Audio. ;-) It had nice digital filters and some kinda-good effects.
I wonder if it would be easy to get a single Dream chip and interface with a XMOS chip via software? Just curious, as I don't even know how to get the chips anyway...
I know a lot of good quality companies are using dream chips, like the Johannus organs and even some keyboards from M-Audio, but I can't confirm. (can someone confirm)
Anyway, just wondering about this, as a few years ago I was dreaming of a project using only Dream chips to make a killer sample-workstation synth. :ugeek: (even with Wavesequencing, as its just a mater of mixing waveforms the correct way to get WSeq from a Dream Chip)
Wk
Atmel Dream Chip?
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Atmel can't even supply their ordinary chips, so I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for them to become available. It might be possible to implement those functions in software on an XMOS device, anyway.
Yup, after posting I did some searches with google and couldn't find the prices of either Dream chips, only quotations. So I guess those are not in stock on any online supplier... :?
In any event, I remember an old DOS program called AXS, which would turn my old Pentium 100mhz (no 3D-Now, SSE or any parallel SIMM codes) into a powerful VA Sequencer Workstation + Sampler with 2 effects. It was pretty simple, but I made some nice tunes with only that program. It was my first legit software purchase, I remember using my parents credit-card. :lol: The disk came on the mail, and had some severe protection to it. Now the program is free and can be downloaded at the following link:
http://www.resolutionaudio.nl/
http://www.resolutionaudio.nl/Files/Axs ... Beta_4.zip
Wk
In any event, I remember an old DOS program called AXS, which would turn my old Pentium 100mhz (no 3D-Now, SSE or any parallel SIMM codes) into a powerful VA Sequencer Workstation + Sampler with 2 effects. It was pretty simple, but I made some nice tunes with only that program. It was my first legit software purchase, I remember using my parents credit-card. :lol: The disk came on the mail, and had some severe protection to it. Now the program is free and can be downloaded at the following link:
http://www.resolutionaudio.nl/
http://www.resolutionaudio.nl/Files/Axs ... Beta_4.zip
Wk
Arrow seems to have some of their chips in stock, but most of the DSP's are allocated. FWIW, the DSP's are non-trivial in the extreme to program, they require a great deal of support from the France office--which is no doubt why they're not in distribution.leon_heller wrote:Atmel can't even supply their ordinary chips, so I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for them to become available. It might be possible to implement those functions in software on an XMOS device, anyway.
Paul
(ex M-Audio guy)
Ahh, good to know, specially from an Ex M-Audio guy. ;-) I have the ProKeys which uses the chip, and it sounds great. Too bad there's no midi-input, so I can't use with an external sequencer. :-(
Are there any alternatives to the dream chip that are easy to use?
Wk
Are there any alternatives to the dream chip that are easy to use?
Wk
Huh? I know i'm late, but most of those are microcontrollers + DSP, and thus can work rather autonomously. You get an optional ROM from DREAM with their CleanWave soundset, MIDI interpreting and synthesis software. There have been dozens of WaveBlaster-compatible daughterboards, which is basically, MIDI TTL goes in, line audio comes out; consisting out of a DREAM 9703 or 9708 or so, a ROM, a pinch of RAM, and a DAC, and that's it.
Also the Dream chips are now available at Profusion PLC, see
http://www.profusionplc.com/pro/gex/pro ... prdtyp=dsp
http://www.profusionplc.com/pro/gex/pro ... prdtyp=dsp