<p>Clarke I am sorry I completely skipped the distributor. If you have the extra 60 or so bucks I would by the real deal dev board. I have read about the oct and looked into it, personally it sucks unless you really really like the set of programs they include on the flash. Well let me re-phrase that, unless you want to add all the parts oct stripped away (which would not be too bad). The big reason this thing is popular is because its a DSP with a lot of pre-setup blocks for you that let you call one or two lines of their SpinASM and be able to do cool tricks. They made it crazy easy for the masses to be able to do DSP work. Similar to the case of Max,Pd,Super Collider,Audio Mulch, Plouge Bidule, impromptu, chuck, csound, etc. It makes it easy to do something that sometimes spinning up your own DSP from scratch can be a bit difficult to do. On the real dev board you can put 10 of any programs you want. They have a full dev kit and surprisingly a lot of really good examples code wise. Now, I am not trying to sound like a salesman personally I am not using a Spin or will probably use one. I mean I will probably get the dev board to mess around with soon (mainly because of my compulsion to buy dev boards for everything). This site gives a lot of good info. http://www.spinsemi.com/knowledge_base/demo_board.html
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