> On July 20, 2020 4:35 PM Vladimir Pantelic <vlado...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> TMS320 is blanket name for a lot of different TI DSP products, from the fixed 
> point C54x to the 8-core floating point C67x variants and beyond. some of 
> them even having quite powerful ARM cores and extra hardware acceleration 
> added...
> 
> 

hunh.  i didn't know that.  i know there are lotsa TI DSP chips with all sorts 
of bells and whistles, both float and fixed-point.  i just thought that TMS320 
meant those old 16-bit chips that you will find in an H3000 Harmonizer.

thanks for the info.

-- 

r b-j                  r...@audioimagination.com 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 22:18 robert bristow-johnson 
> <r...@audioimagination.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  The H3000 is a legendary piece of gear. I've worked with the two main 
> > designers of it and they both live in the same town in Vermont that I do. I 
> > did not get to work on that product line when I joined Eventide in late 
> > 1991.
> >  
> >  From a simple and effective user-interface POV, it's also quite well 
> > designed for it's vintage (1989, i think).
> >  
> >  But the TMS320 is not what made the H3000 great. It became great in spite 
> > of the lack of greatness in the 16-bit TI DSP chip. In fact, the H3000 has 
> > *three* TMS320 chips in it and to get the box to do great things, they had 
> > to divide up very difficult complex programming among the 3 DSPs and do 
> > some synchronized parallel processing where they were passing data between 
> > the chips and timing their instructions to do that.
> >  
> >  In today's world, I don't see it as a good idea to use the TMS320 for any 
> > synth/effects at all. What do you have? An old dev board?
> >  
> >  
> >  -- 
> >  
> >  r b-j r...@audioimagination.com 
> >  
> >  "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
> >  
> >  
> >  > On July 20, 2020 7:42 AM Tristan <t...@alphalink.com.au> wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  > Hi Peter,
> >  > 
> >  > The Eventide H3000 uses TMS32010 DSP chips.
> >  > 
> >  > https://reverb.com/news/tech-behind-eventide-h3000-ultra-harmonizer
> >  > 
> >  > /Tristan
> >  > 
> >  > On Mon, Jul 20th, 2020 at 7:52 PM, "Peter P." <peterpar...@fastmail.com> 
> >  > wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > > Dear list,
> >  > > 
> >  > > I am looking for examples of commercial synthesis and audio effects
> >  > > products using DSPs from the TMS320 family.
> >  > > 
> >  > > Thanks in advance for any pointers!
> >  > > cheers, Peter
> >  > >
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