== What is the Aristocrat? == The Aristocrat is a DSP (Digital Signal Processing)-based guitar pedal. It is called the Aristocrat because it can go anywhere and do anything. The Aristocrat is based on the [[AudioCodecShield|Audio Codec Shield]] from [[http://openmusiclabs.com|Open Music Labs]] and the [[http://leaflabs.com/store/#Maple|Maple]] from [[http://leaflabs.com|Leaf Labs]]. These two boards are combined with a third board from [[http://diydsp.com|DIYDSP]] to create a guitar pedal that can be reprogrammed from the Maple IDE! == What does that actually mean? == It means you can download, modify, write and share programs to make audio effects for your guitar or other electric instrument. It means * You don't have to spend money on new guitar sounds when you want to try them out. * You can customize the software in your pedal to suit your preferences. * You can try out sound algorithms that aren't known yet or aren't commercial. == DSP Resources == This is a collection of places to get information on how to write DSP-based effects: * Open Music Labs' forum on the [[http://forums.openmusiclabs.com/viewforum.php?f=21|Audio Codec Shield]] * Analog Devices paper on [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.110.4688&rep=rep1&type=pdf|essential DSP effects]] * MusicDsp.org [[http://www.musicdsp.org/showmany.php|archive of audio effects]] === DAFX Conference === * 2000 http://profs.sci.univr.it/~dafx/DAFx-final-papers.html * 2002 http://www2.hsu-hh.de/ant/dafx2002/papers.html * 2003 http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/dafx03/tutorials/index.html * 2003 http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/dafx03/keynotes.html * 2004 http://dafx04.na.infn.it/WebProc/Menu.pdf * 2006 http://www.dafx.ca/dafx06_proceedings.html * 2007 http://dafx.labri.fr/main/dafx07-proc.pdf * 2008 http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/dafx08/dafx08_proceedings.htm * 2009 http://dafx09.como.polimi.it/proceedings/data/DAFx09_Proceedings.pdf * 2010 http://dafx10.iem.at/proceedings/ * 2011 http://dafx11.ircam.fr/wordpress/?page_id=554 * http://www.dafx.de/