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Re: [xpantastic] Faster envelopes on Matrix 12/Xpander - Conversation with one of the designers

2008-09-09 by Tony Cappellini

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:52 AM, analogholic <publik@...> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> His answer:
>
> "Hi Attila, To do the job right would be very difficult because, as
> you noticed, the envelopes are generated by the code of the 6809
> microprocessor. Short of using a faster 6809 (assuming that you could
> get one) and modifying the code there is not much which can be done.

Hitachi makes  pin & instruction compatible replacement for the 6809,
but it's clock speed can go up to 3 or 4Mhz.
The 6309 has some additional instructiuons that the 6809 does not
have, but needs to be in a different mode to use them.

I don't think that this would just yield snappier envleopes though. I
fear speeding up the CPU might make many things not work at all.

You may want to run this by Mr Doidic or MArcus to see what their reply is.

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