Goldilocks Analogue - Arduino for audio

#1

Not my project but thought you guys might be interested – this guy Phillip Stevens has designed a new Arduino board with onboard ADC, DAC, and headphone amp. It's called Goldilocks Analogue, and it's using the ATmega1284p, which I suspect is slightly underpowered for most DSP applications. At $50 it's more expensive than most arduino boards, but then it is much more capable. He does have a nice little mono-synth running on it in the demo video, and a full-color touch display to control it.

What do you guys think? Any point in using Arduino/ATMega stuff for music, or would you run into limitations too quickly to make it worthwhile?

#2

An 8bit Atmel microcontroller overclocked to 24.576MHz for audio DSP? 12 bit DAC for audio?

My opinion: a solid plan for disappointment, only a tiny tiny fraction of what Axoloti can do.

Of course my opion is biased :smile:

#3

what would really interest me is if someone made a general purpose 24bit dac board with the ability to input/output bipolar audio and cv's