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The plan is to use swinsids first now (x2) and add two 8580 sids after I shall be building the control surface in a cardboard box lid first and having one printed using the front panel designer file on acyrlic instead of metal Do you know if the sids need to be cooled? As i understand it the oldest sids ran hottest. 8580 and swin sid should be fine right? Also read that fan cooling is discouraged because of noise

I get it now, thanks I do plan on building the control surface. I plan to use the plexiglass C64 case (empty) from https://www.plexilaser.de/ modified into a midibox sid. Final question though: for power, my research shows that the C64 psu used to be recommended but is now no longer recommended. So should I not buy a 'modern' c64 psu from ebay? Would something like this work https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/0413605 Power supplies are where i am the least skilled Thanks

Hey thanks for replying I will order two new sid modules and go with 4 sids like you suggested. I agree that using two sids and two 'emulated' sids sounds cool and im going with 8580 sids because I had a C64Cwith 8580s as a child. I have heard that they run slower though? Im still a little confused about modules. Do I have all I need to use the sids as a synth once ive ordered and assembled all the pcbs? (obviously in a shoebox, panels etc comes later). Im aware there are midi in/out modules, and the demos online appear to have reverb/delay so I wondered if its possible to add an extra module for that. My intention is to use the synth with a DAW supplying a timer over midi (im a renoise guy) rather than a hardware sequencer. For the genesis module im still a little bit confused about the state that it is at at the moment. Is it a useless pcb currently or is it awaiting a firmware update? I tried looking online but all the information I found was for quad genesis builds

Im familiar with pcb kit building and will be able to assemble my parts fine but ive got a few midibox platform questions Ive ordered 2 core8 pcbs, 2 midibox sid pcbs, and a midibox genesis pcb. Is it best to use the two sids with a core8 and the genesis with the other core8? Or is there a way to use all the modules with the same core? Ive done some research and cant find any evidence of the sid pcb supporting more than one sid, so im assuming that unless its the mb-6582 its one sid per sid-pcb. Im aware the mb-6582 uses a more expensive pic device, not sure if i would need this for multiple sids with the modules I've got My aim is to be able to construct a device that can be used as a synthesizer, running as a slave synced to a daw running on my computer, are there any additional modules i'll need for this? Thanks for being patient if these questions turn out to be really common, i did check first but it wasnt as clear-cut as i was hoping