Re:Dadamachines Doppler: FPGA open music hardware
by klodolph on Sunday March 24, 2019 @03:02AM
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So the only advantage is that you can feed the DAC 1:1?
FPGAs are difficult to program, that’s a pretty steep cost to save you the trouble of downsampling your signal, something which is already pretty damn easy to do.
16x oversampling is fine, DSPs are fine. DXD is snake oil.
Re:Dadamachines Doppler: FPGA open music hardware
by vnorilo on Sunday March 24, 2019 @03:45AM
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Sure you can make an equally good synth without fpgas or dxd. I'm not trying to sell you this design. However it's educational to think about when and how it makes technical sense. I do agree that marketing turns it into brain damaged bullet points pretty often.
Edit: So I envision the ultra high rate sawtooth as essentially a n.m bit fixed point accumulator wrapping around by itself, with the n-bit (4? 8?) top part going over to the DAC as a kind of directly generated DXD format signal.