[Fpga-synth] Another FPGA Synth

[malik martin]

so you just have to know how to write an application in assembly
first. gotcah. sorry if I OT'd this topic :)
I'm into 6502 so i guess i'll just try to master that for a while.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
> "The making of synthesizers in FPGAs." wrote:
>>sweet.
>>is there a way  to learn picoblaze aside from the official xilinx manual?
>>It seems a bit over my head for a microcontroller. the xilinx docs are
>>rough on my soft head i guess :P
>
> I'm not aware of documentation other than the Xilinx PDFs.  I will admit that I've had a
> good deal of previous assembly language experience with (much older) hardware
> microprocessors, so I already understood the basics when I picked up PicoBlaze.  I can say
> this much - all of the information you need to use PicoBlaze is in those docs, the
> instruction set portion is very well written.
>
>>On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
>>> I'm getting first sound from a new FPGA synth. This one is a 55
>>voice polysynth using 55 digital waveguides to form a "harp" of
>>55 strings. The harp is organized as 8 mini-harps each supporting
>>up to 7 strings. the state machine processes all 8 mini-harps in
>>parallel. Sample rate is 198.14 KHz. I'm currently working out
>>the bugs and making adjustments, but it works! It is MIDI
>>triggered with an embedded PicoBlaze controller. > > -- ScottG >
>
>>
>>
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