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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006) | Subject: TMS320C67xT
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 April 2005
DSP-based synthesiser is music to the
ears
Alesis' new Fusion Synth Workstation for professional and "prosumer" musicians is powered by three floating-point digital signal processors from TI's TMS320C67xT DSP generation.
Powered by three floating-point digital signal processors from TI's TMS320C67xT DSP generation, Alesis' new Fusion Synth Workstation for professional and "prosumer" musicians demonstrates its powerful and flexible architecture by giving the user more than 200 voices of polyphony and by incorporating multiple types of synthesis capabilities Designed for the modern keyboard player, Fusion is a powerhouse product containing four types of synthesis, a multitrack hard disk recorder, built-in sampler and a large library of built-in effects processing
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Fusion Synth Workstation can be expanded with an optional RAM card and CD burner.
Artists can record, edit and manipulate sounds just like on a computer, as well as store samples on the 40Gbyte hard disk, for the first time at a sub-$3000 price point.
Alesis chose TI's C67xT DSP floating point technology because it is able to perform the demanding audio applications that require high precision, flexibility and raw performance.
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"Alesis is enthusiastic about the use of TI technology in our Fusion Workstations".
"In the past high-power, high-value synthesisers have been based on expensive custom ASIC solutions, but with TI's C67xT DSP generation we are able to create a world-class workstation that has tremendous performance and flexibility all for an incredibly low price", said Alan Meyer, Director of Engineering, Alesis.
"The Fusion Synthesiser Workstation is the next step in Synthesiser Workstation technology, and it would not be available to the performance driven keyboard player, without the pricing and performance of the TI C67xT DSP generation".
Available in two models, a 61 note semi-weighted 6HD and an 88-note fully-weighted 8HD, the Fusion Workstations come complete with a sequencer and sampler.
"Alesis' decision to use TI's C67x floating point DSPs is another example of TI's ability to deliver superior audio-optimised products", said Gerard Andrews, DSP Audio Solutions Marketing Manager, TI.
"In addition to the raw processing power of the C6713 DSP, TI's efficient C compiler and DSP/BIOS kernel ensure that customers, like Alesis, are able to reliably meet their desired market window by reducing the optimisation and debug tasks required for product development".
The C67xT DSP continues to gain momentum in the musical instruments market as it provides high-speed encoding, multichannel broadcast encoding, digital mixing and high-quality effects processing.
Additionally, the C67xT DSP has been chosen as the foundation for biometrics, machine vision and instrumentation applications.
Priced at $2999/$2699 (Fusion 8HD/Fusion 6HD), the Fusion Workstations will be available by summer, and may be purchased at most music instrument retailers.
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