[music-dsp] PICs for DSP and DSP stompboxes?

[douglas irving repetto]

You can easily do various synthesis jobs with a PIC-type 
microcontroller, but they're not really up to the job of processing 
input data. I'd go with a stand-alone DSP board. They're a lot like a 
microcontroller, just much faster and tuned for DSP.

douglas


>Hello,
>
>I am looking to create a guitar effects pedal stompbox
>but would like to have DSP guts inside.  I feel like a
>PIC would be easiest and cheapest solution, but are
>they fast enough and robust enough to handle DSP
>computations?
>
>If anybody has any resources on D.I.Y. digital
>hardware manufacturing, it would be much appreciated.
>I'm not really looking for a DSP development kit like
>a T.I. Code Composer setup, but rather something I can
>put in a stompbox and will just work standalone.
>
>Thanks!
>Farsheed
>
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