SynthModules

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--- In SynthModules@yahoogroups.com, "drmabuce" <drmabuce@y...> wrote:
> Hi Mark
>  BTW while i'm thinking about it, THANX for all the terrific 
content you've put on the web over the years. You are truly one of 
the guys who made the internet-era analog renaissance fun for 
all...Kudos!
> 
> 
> --- In SynthModules@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pulver <mark@m...> wrote:
> 
> >  >how reliably PEEK & POKE work
> > 
> > 'k. What you may be seeing is that you've picked an address which 
is 
> > actually a memory mapped port, so the data at the "address" would 
change.
> > 
> > How did you pick the memory address to poke at?
> 
> I don't know if you saw my reply to Grant, but I was mistook!
> PEEK & POKE work fine - they default to 8b Bytes. (I had my 
variable typed incorrectly) But you have only 2k of memory to work 
with (f780 to FFFF) 
> 
> > 
> > Right... Which kinda' circles back to how fast you can move 
memory; how 
> > deep the INT buffer is on the H8; what the inherent overhead of 
an ISR is 
> > (in relation to moving data fast enough to keep up with pitch 
tracking); etc.
> > 
> >
> Plus... assembler support is still pretty vaporous....
> besides
> I have Kenton boxes that do a ripping job of MIDI->CV !
> and thus insufficient motivation to climb this glass hill (again) I 
did one commercial MIDI-imp in the 80's and swore to gouge out my own 
eyes if I ever even THOUGHT of doing it again! 
> I like the PSIM for the unique things it does. IMHO a dedicated 
MIDI-CV box yields much more bang/buck - and that frees up the PSIM 
to do envelope generation with time ranges measured in HOURS or LFO's 
based on fractal curves (which the Kenton doesn't do very well...) 
> ;'> 
> 
> > 
> > heh... All of my free time would be gone if I had my PSIM...
> > 
> > ...in fact, I'd be tempted to bring it to work and create "free 
time" here 
> > to play with it. :)
> 
> hmmmmmmmmmm,
> just mount it in a discarded zip drive housing.....
> THANX!
> 
> best-
> -doc