I love it. I've got multiple 'Radio Music/Chord Organ' Eurorack modules, which use a Teensy 3.2 to generate audio such as playing files from an SD card, or generating tones to be an oscillator. This (now-obsolete) Teensy has an onboard 12-bit DAC, which is used for the audio.
I worked out how to pump up the sample rate to 300k and up, drastically reducing the aliasing for the simple tone generation. Works great: it's what expensive professional synths like the Novation Summit do.
I don't know how many of these will be made and out there before it too goes away, but as somebody who's spent a lot of time playing with perfboard and CMOS chips and soldering music synthesizers and processors together, but who is not up to the task of doing that within an SMD context, Nano DIP is an astonishing hybrid of those two worlds. .1 headers gets you into a world where all sorts of things can be made from parts. I've even got a bunch of DIP ATTinys, the much more primitive ones used in the Bastl Kastle, for the same reason, but while those would also fit into that world, this is far more capable and run at high sample rate the 8-bit output is more impressive than you'd think: aliasing turns into an odd sort of harmonic distortion at very high sample rate.
I hope this catches on, and I'm struggling not to just run off and buy a bunch of them even without a plan (when I haven't even used the Kastle-style ATTinys). As long as there are people with workshops full of vintage through-hole components and breadboards and perfboard etc. I hope there are projects like this that bridge the gap between that and the world of Arduino.
Imagine one of these with even better ADCs and a DAC that's natively 16 bit but able to clock up to silly rates when used on simple waveform generation (never mind that pulse and square waves need only be 1 bit, and sawtooth waves use only 1 bit for their characteristic part). You'd have a DIP 'chip' that would work like a really expensive analog Eurorack oscillator, available for hacking prototypes together. Heck, this is probably already there. I hope synth makers jump on this project. It seems hard to predict which Arduino-world things continue to be available (crude ATTinys) and which do not (Teensy 3.2 with the 12-bit DAC).
I worked out how to pump up the sample rate to 300k and up, drastically reducing the aliasing for the simple tone generation. Works great: it's what expensive professional synths like the Novation Summit do.
I don't know how many of these will be made and out there before it too goes away, but as somebody who's spent a lot of time playing with perfboard and CMOS chips and soldering music synthesizers and processors together, but who is not up to the task of doing that within an SMD context, Nano DIP is an astonishing hybrid of those two worlds. .1 headers gets you into a world where all sorts of things can be made from parts. I've even got a bunch of DIP ATTinys, the much more primitive ones used in the Bastl Kastle, for the same reason, but while those would also fit into that world, this is far more capable and run at high sample rate the 8-bit output is more impressive than you'd think: aliasing turns into an odd sort of harmonic distortion at very high sample rate.
I hope this catches on, and I'm struggling not to just run off and buy a bunch of them even without a plan (when I haven't even used the Kastle-style ATTinys). As long as there are people with workshops full of vintage through-hole components and breadboards and perfboard etc. I hope there are projects like this that bridge the gap between that and the world of Arduino.
Imagine one of these with even better ADCs and a DAC that's natively 16 bit but able to clock up to silly rates when used on simple waveform generation (never mind that pulse and square waves need only be 1 bit, and sawtooth waves use only 1 bit for their characteristic part). You'd have a DIP 'chip' that would work like a really expensive analog Eurorack oscillator, available for hacking prototypes together. Heck, this is probably already there. I hope synth makers jump on this project. It seems hard to predict which Arduino-world things continue to be available (crude ATTinys) and which do not (Teensy 3.2 with the 12-bit DAC).