How to use the ESK32-30617 HT32F61357 Music Synthesizer MCU development board?

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You might remember the Holtek HT36A4 8-Bit Music Synthesizer from this post.

"📌HT32F61357 Music Synthesizer MCU development board ESK32-30617
💻More Information

00:00​ 00:04​ Opening
00:05​ 00:10​ HT32F61357 Music Synthesizer MCU development board ESK32-30617
00:11​ 00:15​ Layout
00:16​ 00:40​ Development Environment
00:41​ 00:48​ Hardware Connect
00:49​ 01:52​ Audio Workshop software Setting
01:53​ 02:40​ Demo ESK32-30617
02:41​ 02:53​ ESK32-30617 with MuseScore3
02:54​ 03:46​ MuseScore3 Software set up
03:47​ 03:56​ www.BestModulesCorp.com


✒Description

The ESK32-30617 is a development board for Holtek Music Synthesizer MCU HT32F61357. It is convenient for users to develop MIDI / sound-related products with the Holtek music development platform Audio Workshop.

The Audio Workshop has internal integrated a wide variety of editing functions, such as MIDI, Sound, Effect, Sentence, etc., which can be quickly configured to generate target code. With the Audio Workshop, users do not need to write the program codes. The Audio Workshop provide tone editing function. Users can replace with their own tone for tone ADSR parameter adjustment to update tone parameters and simulate tone effects in time.

The MIDI / sound effect evaluation and simulation can be quickly implemented when users connect the micro USB of the ESK32-30617 to computer and work with the Audio Workshop.

✒Features
◆Power supply by USB
◆Editable MIDI
◆The Audio Workshop contains loading and editing MIDI functions (not includes MIDI2)
◆Audio output configuration and MIDI interface configuration
◆Tone parameters editing and replacing
◆With the Audio Workshop, users do not need to write the program codes

✒Product Information
◆Dimensions : 139 x 64 x 13 (mm)
◆Packing List :
- HT32F61357 development board ESK32-30617 x 1
- Nylon hexagon posts x 4

✒Resources
*Development platform : Audio Workshop
*Development board : ESK32-30617
*MCU : Holtek HT32F61357, 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M0+ Music Synthesizer MCU, including datasheet, package dimension, etc.

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Holtek HT36A4 8-Bit Music Synthesizer

"The HT36A4 is an 8-bit high performance RISC-like microcontroller specifically designed for music applications. It provides an 8-bit MCU and a 8 channel wavetable synthesizer. The program ROM is composed of both program control codes and wavetable voice codes, and can be easily programmed.

The HT36A4 has a built-in 8-bit microprocessor which programs the synthesizer to generate the melody by setting the special register from 20H~2AH. A HALT feature is provided to reduce power consumption.

Features
* Operating voltage: 2.4V~5.0V
* Operating frequency: 3.58MHz~12MHz (typ. 8MHz)
* 8 bidirectional I/O lines
* Two 8-bit programmable timer with 8 stage prescaler
* Watchdog Timer
* Built-in 8-bit MCU with 208×8 bits RAM
* Built-in 32K×16-bit ROM for program/data shared
* Mono output
* High D/A converter resolution: 16 bits
* Polyphonic up to 8 notes
* Independent volume mix can be assigned to each sound component
* Sampling rate of 25kHz as 6.4MHz for system frequency
* Eight-level subroutine nesting
* HALT function and wake-up feature to reduce power consumption
* Bit manipulation instructions
* 16-bit table read instructions
* 63 powerful instructions
* All instructions in 1 or 2 machine cycles
* 16-pin DIP/SOP package"

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Anyone know what these are used in or if anyone has done any DIY work with them?