"From the mind of the inventor who has revolutionized the music industry more than once with groundbreaking companies like Alesis and MXR Innovations comes the Spin family of audio effects solutions. These new Audio Effects ICs have been designed instictively to raise the bar and lower the cost of integrated sound effects with the same attention to features and detail that has brought so many innovations to the audio industry over the last 25 years""The Spin Semiconductor FV-1 is a complete reverb solution in a single IC. With integrated stereo ADC and DACs, the FV-1 can be treated like any other analog component in your products signal path.
The FV-1 can access a total of 16 programs, 8 are built in to the internal ROM and the designer may elect to connect a serial EEPROM with 8 additional programs. By using an external EEPROM, the designer can distinguish his product from others by creating a custom program set without the need for a microprocessor in the system.
With 3 potentiometer inputs, programs may have real time variable parameters such as decay time in a reverb, rate and depth in a chorus or frequency in a filter. These inputs are available as coefficients to your program and may be used independently of each other.
The rich instruction set allows users to program effects of all kinds. With instructions like LOG and EXP, users can easily program audio expansion and compression routines. Integrated digital LFOs and ramp generators allow for programming chorus, flange and pitch shift."
Note there is also a mixer solution built around the FV-1.
The "mixer solution" is merely a tiny board that integrates fx into a mixer. It doesn't allow you to build a mixer around the chip.
ReplyDeleteI have a vague recollection of someone trying to launch a company with a similar product about four years ago. Don't know if it was the same people or not. I'll go search the Synth-DIY archives.
ReplyDeleteCoolAudio makes the V1000. Maybe that's what you're thinking of.
ReplyDeleteMight be.
ReplyDeleteThe Coolaudio V1000 is a clone of the Alesis AL3201, though; it doesn't include an integrated ADC/DAC pair in the same way as this chip does. (However, Coolaudio suggest pairing it with their V4220, which is a clone of the CS4220 codec; and I believe their quantity prices give them an edge - hence their use by Behringer... hush at the back!)
ReplyDeleteHaving said which, this chip is certainly related to the Alesis chips, not least because of Keith Barr's involvement. I wouldn't be surprised if it were trivial to port a reverb algorithm, say.