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<blockquote data-quote="Per SÃ¸vik" data-source="post: 82923" data-attributes="member: 1285">Re: Expansion Slot Idea&nbsp;I wouldn&#039;t mind contributing $20 as such, but as a customer I feel a bit disloyal contributing to a reverse-engineering excercise that isn&#039;t even likely to produce a lot of useful information from my perspective. We sort of know that there are Cirrus Logic CS5368 input ADs and Analog Devices AD21273 DSPs (whatever that is) in there, and from some of the pictures on this forum, there is probably some more information to be gleaned, but as long as we don&#039;t know how the signal processing hardware is connected to the control layer (physical and software), there is little to be learned in terms of what possibilities for firmware and software changes really exist. Someone that knows the design can tell us for instance what routing takes place in hardware and what is merely virtual in the software/firmware layer, what is the structure of the routing table and how the scenes are indexed. Details like that might be totally useless for most users, but give a clear indication of what can be easily implemented and what requires major firmware/software rework and what is impossible without hardware changes.In short, I would brefer Behringer to tell us as much as they feel they can without giving away any real secrets (and since there are no real secrets that can be gleaned from a teardown, I don&#039;t see any reason why they can&#039;t give us a complete rundown of the hardware)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Per SÃ¸vik, post: 82923, member: 1285"] Re: Expansion Slot Idea I wouldn't mind contributing $20 as such, but as a customer I feel a bit disloyal contributing to a reverse-engineering excercise that isn't even likely to produce a lot of useful information from my perspective. We sort of know that there are Cirrus Logic CS5368 input ADs and Analog Devices AD21273 DSPs (whatever that is) in there, and from some of the pictures on this forum, there is probably some more information to be gleaned, but as long as we don't know how the signal processing hardware is connected to the control layer (physical and software), there is little to be learned in terms of what possibilities for firmware and software changes really exist. Someone that knows the design can tell us for instance what routing takes place in hardware and what is merely virtual in the software/firmware layer, what is the structure of the routing table and how the scenes are indexed. Details like that might be totally useless for most users, but give a clear indication of what can be easily implemented and what requires major firmware/software rework and what is impossible without hardware changes. In short, I would brefer Behringer to tell us as much as they feel they can without giving away any real secrets (and since there are no real secrets that can be gleaned from a teardown, I don't see any reason why they can't give us a complete rundown of the hardware) [/QUOTE]

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