Best DSP board / chip for audio effects/processing

Hi!


I'm going to buy myself a DSP development kit in a few months time, for
two reasons:

1. I want to learn more about DSP and how DSP processors work.
2. I'm going to make myself an audio mixer (studio mixer), and I want to 
   be able to add effects, etc to the input-signals.  Things like 
   delays, noice gates, compressors, etc.


Currently, I've been looking a bit at the Dev.Kit from TI with the 
C6713, but I thought I'd ask here for advice since I'm a beginner in
the field.


In advance, thanks!

-- 
Thomas

Thomas Lang=E5s skrev:
> Hi!
>
>
> I'm going to buy myself a DSP development kit in a few months time, for
> two reasons:
>
> 1. I want to learn more about DSP and how DSP processors work.
> 2. I'm going to make myself an audio mixer (studio mixer), and I want to
>    be able to add effects, etc to the input-signals.  Things like
>    delays, noice gates, compressors, etc.
>
>
> Currently, I've been looking a bit at the Dev.Kit from TI with the
> C6713, but I thought I'd ask here for advice since I'm a beginner in
> the field.

.=2E.so you are looking for the card that is "best" in the sense of

- Purchase price?
- Ease of programming?
- Interfacing with other equipment?
- Run time/processing capacity?
- Data precision?
- The number of channels?
- Sampling frequency?

You would probably get more responses if you provided some more
information about your project.

Rune

Thomas Lang&#4294967295;s <tlan@stud.ntnu.no> wrote in news:dedcqf$35r$1
@orkan.itea.ntnu.no:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> 
> I'm going to buy myself a DSP development kit in a few months time, for
> two reasons:
> 
> 1. I want to learn more about DSP and how DSP processors work.
> 2. I'm going to make myself an audio mixer (studio mixer), and I want 
to 
>    be able to add effects, etc to the input-signals.  Things like 
>    delays, noice gates, compressors, etc.
> 
> 
> Currently, I've been looking a bit at the Dev.Kit from TI with the 
> C6713, but I thought I'd ask here for advice since I'm a beginner in
> the field.
> 
> 
> In advance, thanks!
> 

The SHARC is currently the most popular DSP family for audio 
applications. We have many boards that you can use for your application. 
Several of our boards include an onboard ADI debugger (ICE). This means 
that our boards can emulate an ADI EZ-Kit and also use a free (KIT)Visual 
DSP license.

One of the big differences with our boards from a development kit is that 
our boards are designed to be incorporated into real products whereas a 
dev kit is designed primarily as a learning aid.

Currently, we have IO boards that can support up to 8 audio inputs and 
outputs (sampling to 96k). In October, we will release a board that can 
support up to 16 audio inputs and 32 audio outputs up to 192k. It will 
also have S/PDIF connections. 

John Tomarakos (ADI) wrote an application note that includes many audio 
effects. There is also the Visual Audio platform that is designed to 
facilitate audio software development. 

-- 
Al Clark
Danville Signal Processing, Inc.
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