I was going to use the classic Midibox SID v2 board (i'm not sure the proper way to reference it, but the one that only holds one chip) vs the fancy pants MB6582. I'm probably getting in over my head with this whole thing, but with a lack of good pre-built hardware options (Therapsid I considered, but I want the ability to add more chips if necessary and also as cool as the knobs are, it annoys me that I can't capture their values in my DAW due to the lack of midi out) I'm getting desperate.
That said, I'm not sure I want to invest in a programmer just to program 2 or so chips. I'm might just be SOL.
Thank you for the info, though.