SwinSID, an AVR-based SID "clone"
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http://www.swinkels.tvtom.pl/swinsid/
I recently heard of an interesting project. The Swinsid project aims to create pin compatible clones of the SID chips. SwinSID adds more waveforms, effects and 16-bit stereo output.
However, the sound is quite different from the real thing, even when not touching any of the new features. He also openly admits this. He even seems to dislike the original sound a little:
So, what do you think, will this experiment turn successful? Will scene people ignore just because it's not the real thing?
Right now there are no good players or trackers for the thing. Will anyone be up for writing them?
Even if this seems like a useless project, I think it's a bit cool, and he deserves some cred for the project.
I recently heard of an interesting project. The Swinsid project aims to create pin compatible clones of the SID chips. SwinSID adds more waveforms, effects and 16-bit stereo output.
However, the sound is quite different from the real thing, even when not touching any of the new features. He also openly admits this. He even seems to dislike the original sound a little:
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Twenty years ago, when SID was made, it was powerful and gave excellent quality in home computers, but today SID music sounds weird and very unprofessional.
So, what do you think, will this experiment turn successful? Will scene people ignore just because it's not the real thing?
Right now there are no good players or trackers for the thing. Will anyone be up for writing them?
Even if this seems like a useless project, I think it's a bit cool, and he deserves some cred for the project.
cool :D maybe now ppl can re-generate killed c64 (fuckings to all "SID removing ppl", lol)
It wouldn't be the real thing even if it sounded like the original. I'm no musician but I'm all for expanding the basic concept.
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...but today SID music sounds weird and very unprofessional.
People will ignore it due to unqualified and ignorant statements like that. Nobody needs the second coming of adlib (which this swinsid is).
Nice project anyways, but he should sell it to a different audience.
How the fuck SID music sounds unprofessional!?
if nitro2k01 posts it, it'll probably amount to nothing :)
havoc :))
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What? No Timbaland-jokes yet? You people disappoint me....but today SID music sounds weird and very unprofessional.
so unprofessional, hhmm i wonder how many people have downloaded the contents of high voltage.. including some melody stealing retards who falsely "proclaim" to be professional musicians.
you could always use a prophet 64 daughter board.. thats 6 channels =)
prophet 64 and the dtv are the only things i have time for of the past few years. I would only trust people like the woman behind DTV (i forget her name =/ ) to make such things.
If they made a midi controlled module, using the dtv as a base + multiple sids.. that would be amazing :) , yes I know theres vst-i synths, sid station , just putting everything inside the something like a DTV with midi/audio out would be nice :)
you could always use a prophet 64 daughter board.. thats 6 channels =)
prophet 64 and the dtv are the only things i have time for of the past few years. I would only trust people like the woman behind DTV (i forget her name =/ ) to make such things.
If they made a midi controlled module, using the dtv as a base + multiple sids.. that would be amazing :) , yes I know theres vst-i synths, sid station , just putting everything inside the something like a DTV with midi/audio out would be nice :)
old64scener: the name you're not looking for is Jens Schoenfeld, www.ami.ga. He had a tad to do with the C-one , which Jeri Ellsworth (the name you WERE looking for) worked with him on. Now there is wierdness surrounding some parts of that, but, well, Jens tends to show up to demoparties and support us, and his hardware is just cool.
She does not do hardware anymore. Just porn.
...so she isn't *doing* any *hardware* then?
maaahhh, nitro2k01 is a ruler :D
scenerhub.pl: ta.. u know who i meant. I did, but i'm normally better with faces than names. I did see the C-one, also. Just would be nice to see something like stupidly downsized. e.g. 64 in a very small box with boost hardware wise, with a 3.5 drive that was 1581 compat etc. or perhaps a usb cable etc, so you could use the pc as a drive + use it for dev like a proper pds =) , I wonder if anyone owns snasm pds they used to use at software houses, on the scene, I have the 128 zues one. =)
You'll be wanting to mod your d64 then (:
scenerhub.pl : i will mod one of my c64's for sure, for prophet64. people give me them with broken keyboards etc. still, handy for spares. I'd like to get another c128 though.
speaking of sound, I watched a demo yesterday.. drum & bass on a 64 =)
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=32432]
speaking of sound, I watched a demo yesterday.. drum & bass on a 64 =)
http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=32432]
anyone knows the id of this wilddemo: a video showing a microcontroller wich plays a chiptune. ? Not released long ago...
It's called "The hardware chiptune project"
search it ;)
search it ;)