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Can we discuss how great the SID chip was for its time, and how good it is now for a 34 year old computer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qR-iD5WzWw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3t5P7pvxlE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdz5X814bNQ
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>>3076493
It's so good chinks knock it off to this day.
>>3076493
I discovered once there was the soundcard Innovation SSI-2001 for the IBM PC based on SID chip.
Some russian guy made a replica of it and it works. Pretty great work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlmtU__glmU
This video shows prototype, but he finished his work.
Too bad the soundcard didn't get much popularity.
>>3076493
I fucking love it, but I really wish the filters weren't so damn fragile.
I've almost given up on finding a C64 or C128 with a non-broken SID chip for a price I can afford.
>>3077603
Are they any good?
The last batch of knockoff SID chips I heard about were just empty dip packages, some even has lead in them if you were lucky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elueA2rofoo
Jeroen Tel is so good, better than that Follin hack
>>3079068
All the knock off SIDs I've seen were complete shit it they worked at all. Still, the chinks keep trying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVMMB5cI4Sk
it's really useless as a musical tool until you have two of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMJjqVB9JCM
Imagine how great it would be if it had more than 3 channels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1AeBgalFZk
Funny, I was just thinking of the SID chip lately. I am no musician, but if I ever find the time and money to give it a go, I'd love to do it on the SID chip. I just love the sound it makes, but my country was pretty much dominated by the Spectrum so it's hard to find anyone who even heard about the system locally, much less an used model, and there's a very hefty import tax if I try that route, so I've been limited to those mp3s recorded on real hardware, and thinking of emulation until I can save enough to get a "starter kit" or even just the chip itself to tinker with.
Any of you knows or has a comparison between the real deal sound and current software emulations like VICE or such? I looked around youtube and google but couldn't find anything solid. But I am searching in English, so maybe there's something in some other languages that my search wording isn't covering.
On emulation, what would be the optimal settings in an emulator to get a sound as close as possible to the SID's sound? I looked at SID-wizard with defaults and sounds pretty decent already, and I heard software emulation is pretty accurate unless you go to the finer details, but it's kind of hard to compare without some sort of dedicated player.
When emulating, or for a potential purchase, which one of the two versions of the chip is the more likely to be "right"?
How is the SwinSID? Is it a valid alternative if using hardware? I saw a very tiny number of reviews, usually in german or some euro lang I can't even identify, and they seem pretty negative, but not sure if they are just being elitists or they got some legitimate points. The only comparison I could find seems pretty outdated, so I am hoping it has improved since then.
Are there any attempts to create more SID chips? is it possible to replicate them in some way? I am aware we peasants can't do it without factory tools, period, but in this world where the weirdest shit gets crowdfunded, maybe there's something I missed out there.
>>3082264
I... think sidplay2 was more than reasonably accurate. I think around 2008 they even got filters integrated that emulated the equalization you'd get effectively out of your computer, and all the bugs were properly emulated. iread something and they said one of the players is totally legit now and they had waveforms on an oscilloscope and shit.
You can get hardware sid players too. A couple years ago there were people selling two to four chip sets for writing your own music, and there's some publically available stuff like an Arduino shield schematic for it.
no JONATHON DUNN? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFgXGw_kXpc Seriously one of the best sid composers.
>>3082316
>>3082285
That sounds pretty cool. You got any links or names I can google for to get more info on that stuff?
>>3082316
Seriously the most overrated chiptune composer. His sampletunes are way better.
I like the Hilpinen brothers.
https://youtu.be/xH9vHhKX6cs
https://youtu.be/4PttWtX8NDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpy6b3TILTI
Thomas Detert is amazing.
https://youtu.be/bKxmXhaRFso
https://youtu.be/6Xdy-99WtKw
And who could forget Stello Doussis?
https://youtu.be/fJxirt_lFOo
https://youtu.be/ngW06vwEN-g
https://youtu.be/eUZZzQknmo0
>>3082264
>Are there any attempts to create more SID chips?
The Chinese are making tons of repro SIDs. None of them actually work, but hey, it's something.
>>3082696
>literally all Euros
Why were Americans so fail at composing SID tunes?
>>3082714
I...don't know. LucasArts were just about the only NTSC dev with good SID composers.
>>3082719
Them aside, practically all American devs seemed incapable of using anything but the default SID envelopes.
>>3082264
As for the 2 models of sid chips, which one you want is kind of a tough question to answer.
The original (6581) has several bugs and fairly fragile filters. The filters would break under comparitively little static shock compared to most other chips, however, the glitches in the filter were often used by musicians for special sounds or for PCM playback via rapidly changing their amplification.
The 8580 on the otherhand has far less fragile filters, but many other glitches were fixed as well. This means that many tricks used by musicians no longer worked. However, one can bias the filters on the 8580 to regain PCM playback IIRC.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQkW6BgUYU
Gotta love Overlord.
How decent is the SwinSID?
>>3083607
Not great. And since it's not open source it will probably never be better.
I own one of the first Elektron Sidstations.
Pretty nifty.
>>3083137
C64Cs and C128s have 8580s so you should have a lot fewer reliability concerns with those than the breadbox C64.
>>3082714
>Why were Americans so fail at composing chiptunes?
I don't know. Probably because you didn't have your own retro market. Just imports from Japan.
Tommy Tallarico is terrific though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WLn7z5x2Rg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu-DY6Phm_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGwD0kyvlbM
>>3084894
>I don't know. Probably because you didn't have your own retro market. Just imports from Japan.
???
>>3076493
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3t5P7pvxlE
>4 channels
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I bought one of these. It has 1 oscillator, but it is so versatile that you can reproduce almost any C64 sound, except for ring modulation.
>>3082316
Ha! Dude, thank you! I never played that but hearing that song it immediately reminded me of JP on the SNES's music which I always thought was trippy and fantastic and with the Ocean I got curious. Sure as shit it's Jonathon Dunn lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1EGNaPTACc
