Has anyone tried using this?
http://www.howleraudio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2008/06/23/openstomp-coyote-1-is-an-open-source-effects-processor/
It's not news. It looks like it will be able to do several effects in a row. Unfortunately the list of available effects is very poor to say the least. Nothing beats FV-1 so far.
And let's face it - most people are not going to sit and start writing DSP stuff. Only a few will and I mean worldwide especially on some new language.
I took a look at the distortion effect sample code. Basically it's just a limiter so it's not really usable for a decent overdrive effect. No code to perform anti-aliasing of the extra noise from non-linear math. But it seems like it might be useful for delay-based effects. Anyway, it's nice to see people offering designs and examples for others to look at. For power and simplicity I still like the Wavefront DSP. 50 MIPS AL3102 with 1K RAM vs. 6 MIPS FV-1 with 32K RAM. Nice that the FV-1 includes the ADC's and DAC's. Guess it depends on what you're doing with them though. Both the AL3101/2 and FV-1 handle the fixed point notation for you. One AL3101/2 MAC is worth at least four general purpose CPU instructions (multiply, shift, or, add) depending on the fixed-point format.