I tried it Chris, wicked stuff. Oddly I've been talking about old sound chips quite a bit recently, there seems to be a revival of interest. Noah Vawter from MIT gave me an explanatin of why the Sid was such a superior beast to the AY38610. Were there any other notable "synthesiser on a chip" attempts?
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:29:43 +0800 Chris McCormick chris@mccormick.cx wrote:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:22:02PM +0100, padawan12 wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:08:04 -0500 "Kyle Klipowicz" kyleklip@gmail.com wrote:
It's pretty awesome that so many of us grew up using MOD trackers as our first (or early) computer music environments.
Kinda missed out on trackers, somewhere between beeps on the BBC micro or Commodore 64, and my first Atari ST with Cubase. My first ever "computer music" was on a ZX81, which doesn't have a soundcard, but if you put a radio next to it you could hear the programs running off station at 4MHz because the crappy little plastic box had no EMI shielding, so by inserting nops in a loop you could make it play musical sequences ;)
[plug] If yr interested in that kind of thing you might like to check out my commodore64 synthesizer software: http://mccormick.cx/viewcvs/aSid/ which you can build using the cc65 compiler and put on your commodore 64 using the MMC64 sd-card-to-c64-cartridge converter (google it). Plug in a couple of analogue paddles and you have a moogy synthesizer for ten bucks/pounds! [/plug]
Best,
Chris.
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