Soon available for integration projects : X8 High End Waveblaster IO + USB synthesizer board :
The perfect board for integrating in your high end realtime music applications, and electronics projects.
Hardware Specs :
- High End 8 core Dream 5000 series synth chip (SAM5708B), up to 135 voices polyphony
- Small form factor PCB, 47mm x 35mm
- Super low latency < 1ms
- 8 MByte SDRAM for high quality effects
- 1 GByte Flash for soundbanks
- 2x13 Waveblaster header for integration on DOS sound cards and custom projects
- Up to 300mA current consumption at 5V, when using all DSP cores.
- 4 pos dip switch for default bank selection.
- USB-MIDI interface (Class compliant), USB-C connector
- Stereo out, high quality 24 bit 112 dB DNR DAC
Features :
- High quality Dream synth engine, compatible with Dream 5000 SDK for custom soundbank design
- High quality GS compatible reverb and chorus
- 3 Stereo Insert Multi-Effects blocks (s (Distortion, Equalizer, Compressor, Chorus/Flanger/Phaser/Tremolo/Rotary, Delay), controllable by MIDI.
- 4-bands Equalizer, controllable by MIDI.
- Multi slot soundbank support, fast bank uploading over USB to flash using Serdaco X16Manager multi slot upload tool
- Bootloader for updating firmware over USB
- Support for DreamBlaster Presets
The default X8 will ship with the following banks :
- Bank 1 : Dream CleanWave Bank (can be overwritten).
- Bank 2-7 : free
- The complete 1gbyte flash can be used for your own professional soundbank, developer using Dream 5000 SDK
Optionally, the board can delivered with your custom soundbanks pre-flashed, and tested.
Find information here on
how to convert your own soundbanks, using awave Studio.
X8 is compatible with X16 (except that it has less polyphony). So the following documentation also applies to X8 :
Read the X16 user manual
here.
Read the X16 MIDI specs
here.
Find X16 related downloads
here.