Saturday, February 09, 2008
Controlling an SP0256-AL2 speech IC from Live using Arduino
Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu-KR1b9jII
"The SP0256-AL2 "Narrator" chip has appeared in many arcade games in the 80's for speech synthesis purposes.
This video shows a hardware ("real") SP0256 IC sequencer from Ableton Live via internal MIDI routing and a serial connection over USB.
In the video, the left track is the SP0256-AL2 and the right track is a drum track that is playing back on a virtual sampler.
I didn't really try to make words or phrases. Instead, i have tried to use the chip in a more musical way.
I really like the sound quality and some of the address sounds heard from the chip. Nice and grainy. "
Labels:
ableton live,
arduino,
chipmusic,
chiptech,
digital manipulation,
speech synthesis
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3 comments:
Hey man cool post:
a) Sounds awesome!
b) The Youtube URL needs fixing
c) Where did you pick the chip up from?
a) cheers
b) done. thanks for the warning
c) speechchips.com, of course ;-) what a suitable-sounding site, huh?
How about a link for your Schematic? USB, hey now that's cool!
:)
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