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- From: aa399@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Len Stys)
- Subject: Re: Falcon DSP -> standard modem & fax?
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- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 01:14:59 GMT
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- In a previous article, selick@csa.bu.edu (Steven Selick) says:
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- >
- >Just how programmable will the dsp chip in the new Falcon be? For
- >instance, could one program it to emulate a standard modem? How fast
- >would it be able to run? How about using the Falcon as a midi sampler?
- >What polyphony would such a beast have? Perhaps a vocodor? It would seem
- >that somebody who was a bit clever could even make the Falcon into a
- >Yamaha DX-7, or even a more complicated machine, using MIDI as the key
- >input. Could the dsp chip possibly be used for added processing power if
- >you are using non-dsp programs? Any chance C-Lab's Notator will be
- >taking advantage of the new falcon hardware in the near future? When
- >they say "8 channel digital recording" Do they literally mean like an
- >alesis adat machine? Will future programs be able to do digital cut and
- >paste on one of those tracks independantly? How large a disk drive would
- >one need for say 1 minute of 8 track recording? Would it be possible to
- >do such recording directly to a tape backup drive? Can the Falcon start
- >up an old car on a frosty morning? :)
- >
- >Lots of questions here...feel free to answer just a few!
- >
- >-Steve <selick@csa.bu.edu>
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- The Motorola DSP56001 has its own port with which it can communicate directly.
- This actually provides two serial ports, one synchronous, the other
- asynchronous. The port uses a femal DB-15 connector, numbered like this
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- 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
- O O O O O O O O
- O O O O O O O
- 15 14 13 12 11 10 9
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- 1 Serial clock signal (synchronous)
- 2 Serial receive data (synchronous)
- 3 Serial transmit data (synchronous)
- 4 Serial clock signal (asynchronous)
- 5 Receive data (asynchronous)
- 6 Transmit data (asynchronous)
- 7 +12v
- 8 -12v
- 9 Ground
- 10 Ground
- 11 Ground
- 12 SC2
- 13 SC1
- 14 Reserved
- 15 Ground
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- Len (aa399@cleveland.freenet.edu)
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