TheUriah

I'd just like to put a vote in for POKEY! I still haven't made my SID yet (taking my electronics class right now to prepare!), but I do know that were it available, MBPOKEY would be my next project!

Wow. Is that true? If so, I would love to do that and put buttons across the top and bottom, like this: * * * * * ------------ | | ------------ * * * * * Can anyone confirm if that is how it works? And..do you have any tips or reasons why my idea wouldn't work?

Saw it at NAMM. Neat at first glance. Feels like crap. Sounds like crap. No MIDI. It'd be kewl if they made one velocity sensitive and with MIDI.

I got that error here too. Don't quite know exactly when, but I saw it too.

This server rocks.. I'm in Southern CAlifornia, USA. Believe it or not, I was getting like 450kb - 1meg (but then, I use Flashget, which opens multiple connections) Incredible. And BTW, the FM synth sounds AWESOME as well..

Oh, definately. This is all very useful information. That thing about caps having a life expectancy like that is something I was unaware of. Are all components like that, or just certain ones?

Thanks, Thorsten! (and Andrew, of course!) That pretty much answers my questions. Except for one more i thought of... Is there other types of encoders, like there are pots? (Odd ones like photo, infra-red, etc?)

...bump.... anyone else have any insight? also, I think I'm realizing now that the system itself has a feature to "link" the SIDs. Can you just link 1 and 2, and link 3 and 4 separately? If linked, will parameter for osc 1 also apply to osc 2? Also, if linked, is there, or is there a way to set up, some sort of PAN setting?

I have been ravenously going over all the MidiboxSID documents, tutorials, postings, etc. I will defiantely be building one in the somewhat near future. I'm starting to get my head around the concepts (after weeks of reading the same stuff over and over), and I am even going to be taking a basic electronics class this semester to develop some skills before I start. I have a couple of questions... First of all, my idea for my eventual MidiboxSID is 4 sids, 2*8580 for one voice stereo left/right, and 2*6581 for the second voice left/right. Does that sound fesable? Also... 1. I know that you can salvage to PSU from the C64 for the synth. Will the PSU from both the C64 or C128 both work? Is one preferred (especially considering I plan on having both types of chips onboard)? 2. For the way I outlined the setup for my unit, would I trick the unit by making each pair share a device id, so that they act EXACTLY the same? (IE, both 8580 cores have to same device id, because I want it to act like 1 stereo voice.) Or is there a better way, or a reason not to do that? (please forgive me if I'm overlooking a major design concept of some kind. I'm still learning! :)) 3. Are there other parts that can be salvaged form the PCB of the C64 or C128? Resistors, etc... 4. What's the sound variance on SID chips? Like if I had two SIDs, same model, same parameters, would they both sound pretty much EXCATLY the same?, or would the sound vary noticeably? (also for the stereo thing) 5. I notice the POTX and POTY connections on the SID. I know they're for potentiomenters, but what do they do to the sound, if anything? There was more, but I don't remember right now. Thanks!