Thanks for the reply. I thought they were the same DSP through the Virus C? Actually the biggest problem I see is that there isn't much memory on the A. V4 may have simply been too large. If all else fails maybe I can hack at the 2.8 OS and make it glitchy .
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I opened up my Virus A and it was pretty unimpressive inside. Basically a LCD and corresponding circuitry, 20bit dacs, a DSP and the control panel. I don't know what the DSP was worth in 1997, but altogether it can't be more than $100 of materials.
I think people are full of shit when they say that software is inferior to digital hardware. Don't get me wrong, the Virus A and newer are nice bits of kit -- tactile control, all mapped perfectly and well integrated. BUT DSPs do integer ops. A modern x86 64 bit CPU could blow the pants off one of these and you get the benefit of fp, smid, and soon GPGPU from what was once the video card (talk about a serious stream processor!).
Last edited by kev009 : 19.05.2008 at 04:30 AM.
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