It's the development board for the Spin FV-1 micro plus some analog circuitry to interface it... relay switching, buffer in, split for clean mix, wet goes into the FV-1, back out to analog 3 band eq like the Elements/Cleanness, volume, output buffer.
The Spin is a really neat chip, really powerful. It's designed to do any type of audio effect from delay to reverb to modulation to pitch shifting to compression/expansion to filter/eq to you name it, in stereo. You get 8 banks or patches to work with, stored on an external memory chip, that's the 8DIP beside the Spin. You don't need that whole board for a pedal as it contains the USB interface etc, all you need is what's outlined in the white box.. the Spin chip itself, the external memory, and a small bit of components to set up the chip.
I still don't know how to do the code but it's set up in a way that analog guys like me can get into it... so I'm getting into it! I love all the time based and modulation stuff and will be going there one day, but for now, I wanna goof around with digital distortion/fuzz. It's easiest, it's fun, and nobody else is doing that with this Spin chip.
With the right external crystal for the clock you can even get up to 2 seconds of delay time, so that's pretty cool too... just has a whole bunch of interesting possibilities inside of it and I think rather than take on another huge analog project, I'd like to learn some new tricks and have some fun with this thing.
