Monowave debugging.... into DSP's

[Joost Schuttelaar]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 15:39 , Tom Adam wrote:

> any recommendations? I think I'm getting up to date with the  
> hardware by reading the manual (520pages), but I'm a little  
> concerned about the programming itself.

To be perfectly honest, I think that learning DSP + Motorola assembly  
at the same time is a bit brave. Very steep learning curve in both.

I think the best way to learn DSP is to simply write some standalone  
audio code on the PC in C. Then port to whatever you want. Perhaps  
prototype even in a higher language such as Python.

The Arduino is pretty fun to do some audio processing on :) just lower  
the sample rate a bit...

In terms of DSP learning, I think Arduino and standalone on your  
normal work machine is easiest. Arduino is fixed point, which makes  
things a bit more difficult, but setting up some working audio + midi  
i/o code on your PC will take you some time too. Motorola DSP gives  
you some very nice performance on an embedded platform, but the  
language is dreadful and you have to worry about registers and fixed  
point all the time.

If you need some sample code to get going let me know (are you on Mac  
Tom?).

-- 

Joost Schuttelaar
The Hague, NL

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