Spin Semiconductor

I'm going to buy the dev board and start learning to program the FV-1. After reading through the various datasheets and docs, it seems fairly doable, even to a complete DSP noob like me, which really excites me.

What I'm wondering, though, is how this language compares to working with other DSPs. I have several ideas for things I'd like to use the FV-1 for, but I'd also like to make a looper, which would require more memory than the FV-1 has obviously, so I'd need to do that in some other hardware.

So my question is: is there any commonality between the concepts and language of the FV-1 that would also be applicable to general DSP down the road? Or is it completely different?

It has been a while since I last dug into many of the DSPs out there but as I recall the assembly language for each was different from the others. This is due to how the device is optimized internally, for example the FV-1 was optimized for audio effects, not compressing MP3s, and its assembly language reflects this. The most important part of DSP programming is really understanding what the algorithms are doing so you can select the best chip for the function.