Audio output design

Hello,

I am trying to find the easiest way to design a circuit that would allow prerecoded sound (piano, flute, animal sound etc...) to play whenever a key is pressed. I want to actually recreate those cheap keyboard you can buy for kids but make it easy to change the sound bank.

I was wandering if there was any "off the shelf" IC chip that would allow this type of application. My goal would be to design a keyboard that would have about 12 notes.

Thank you for you Help.

Rickydou.

Hello,

I am trying to find the easiest way to design a circuit that would allow prerecoded sound (piano, flute, animal sound etc...) to play whenever a key is pressed. I want to actually recreate those cheap keyboard you can buy for kids but make it easy to change the sound bank.

I was wandering if there was any "off the shelf" IC chip that would allow this type of application. My goal would be to design a keyboard that would have about 12 notes.

Thank you for you Help.

Rickydou.

I though about this avenue, but how can I record 12 to 20 sounds (different animal sounds or different piano tones) and use another chip that would allow me to look into a lookup table to get the sound I need when I touch the first key and another sound for the next key.

Also I am looking to make a polyphonic instrument, so I want to play multiple sounds at the same time...

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Rickydou

I was under the impression that you could randomly access multiple stored sounds with the device, so if my memory is correct, that should not be a problem if you simply decode the keys to access particular stored sounds.

The polyphonic part or your requirement does make it tough. I suppose you could use multiple chips, but that doesn't sound friendly. Surely you can do what you want with a computer. Any computer, but one with a soundcard makes life easy.

Chuck

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On Feb 28, 3:12?pm, " snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com" wrote: My goal would be to design a keyboard

I know the ISD chips from Winbond won't do what you want. (multiple simultaneous notes.) There was once a chip (AY-3-8910) or something like that, that would. But good luck finding one.

I think they were used in some early Atari or Commodore computers.??

-mpm