"The Soundgin is Serially controlled Sound Synthesizer in a PIC. It produces complex sound effects, synthesizer style music and English speech with an unlimited vocabulary. For use in manufactured electronics and home projects."
Available in an 18-Pin DIP or SOIC package.2.0 to 5.0 Volts Operation
16Khz Sample Output Rate
2400 or 9600 Baud Serial Connection
6 Independently Controlled Voices
Amp, Freq, Ring Modulation
Hard Sync.
ADSR Envelopes
Musical Notes
English Phonemes
Sound Morphing
Title link takes you to more info, including samples. Via M. Altemark in the comments of this post.
The new SN76477??
ReplyDeleteGood find, Professor Matrix.
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant application of a PIC microcontroller! The example file sounds a bit noisy (to be expected from 8 bit synthesis), but isn't that part of the magic of chiptunes?
They're available right-this-minute for about $25. Now where did my wife hide the credit card??!
You know this thing looks very cool but, how the hell do you use it? Are there any working schematics on how to build something out of it? Do you have to run it through software or can you have patches and knobs?
ReplyDeleteIf there is a commercial synth maker that can put a couple of these in a keyboard with knobs for around $500, I would buy one. Hello, Elektron?
ReplyDeleteI think this is the synth chip used in the Arcade game Berzerk. I used to have it.
This is not the chip used in Berzerk but it can do speech allophones.
ReplyDeleteIt is a new synthesizer based on a PIC and it's not that hard to use at all. There is a development board you can connect to a PC and control with console software.
See http://www.speechchips.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=14