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AY-3-8910, I remember those. Came across an old board I made up with
four of those on, play Mozart musical dice.

Regarding chips, Atmel do some. Midi ones. Chuck midi at it and out
comes stereo. There are loads of midi files around, so should be just a
case of sending the file to the device. Probably a bit more difficult
than that though!


Tim Mitchell wrote:
> I've been asked to make a device which will produce sounds, notes and
> music. This is an add on to a unit controlled by a mega128.
> We've previously made something for this customer which plays back WAV
> samples off a compact flash card, but this time they would like
> something more synthesised. We have also made a simple synth using a
> mega8 generating a wave using PWM from a wavetable, but it's very basic
> and sounds it.
> 
> Mobile phones do this sort of thing routinely these days, but you can't
> get the "synth" chips you used to be able to buy like the good old
> AY-3-8910 and that type of thing.
> 
> Has anyone done anything like this with up to date technology?
>