DragonMaster

Thanks, doesn't seem too complicated.

There's just a little missing info(I think). I already read the first AOUT sentence, but it doesn't tell me what it actually does. To understand something, I need to know how it works. Telling me that it controls Fx gear isn't telling me much. I do so much things for nothing, maybe it will be less useless. If I read correctly, you control the 4 SID channels with 1 MIDI channel? Seems strange to me, that's why I ask.

Should I build one if I don't compose any music? If I just want to listen to SID files using hardware instead of software or if I want to reproduce old songs thru MIDI should I build one? As for the other question I asked is: How do you make a 4 SID machine? I found you need 4 cores and 4 sid modules, but how do you control them? Different MIDI ports? Each SID have 4 channels on the 16 available? different IDs? I'm a newb to MIDIbox's way of working(MIOS with modules connected together and more modules you have, more powerful it is) so when someone talks about adding a AOUT module to the SID and adding a Moog filter I don't understand anything and I can't seem to find info on how to do that either. (I found that AOUT is a CV module but what's a CV?) And as for the K5, yes there are sounds really sounding like FM, but what I'd like the most would be to reproduce FM sounds easily, K5 programming is a real pain. If you want to see all the parameters for singles(multi are multiple singles at the time), go here: http://kfuenf.org/en/k5info.html#BASIC'>http://kfuenf.org/en/k5info.html#BASIC it's from How to program singles to the end of the page. The synth is really powerful(It's made in 1988 and more powerful than an XT running on it's 14 MHz NEC V40), but programming sounds is what made this synth so unpopular(~3000 units built) But, you can make songs like the ones on the kfuenf homepage http://kfuenf.org/ Also, there's just a little problem, I can't find a single commodore 64 available in canada on ebay, all the bids are shipping to US only.

To reduce noise level for any synths there are important things to remember : clean PSU and good opamps. (I am suscribed to forums including many audiophiles so the following ideas might be too expansive or maniac) Clean PSU: while 78xx are simple, they are pretty noisy. Using better variable regulators is better in this case. Look at the PSUs here : http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/tnt1541_e.html they're quite complex.(I'm building this project, but I'm not maniac to the point of buying 2$ resistors, 0.09$ will still do the job) Separating digital and analog circuits can also help. Clock and PIC noise is not introduced in the signal. Since the SID is affected easily by signal noise(From what Yannes told in "the" only interview with im avail. on the Internet), it should have it's PSU separated from anything else(Or at least it's own regulator with ferrite beads in front). Good opamps: If you're really a noise maniac, you will find that TL0x4 is pretty noisy. In this case give the opamps their own PSUs and put OPA4134 opamps instead.

I currently have a Fourier Additive Synthesizer, Kawai K5, two Linear Arithmetic Roland D-110s connected to my MusicQuest MQX-32M interface, and my SBLive. What would you tell me to get with this, MBSID, MBFM? Also, sometimes people get 4 SIDs. Do they use the same CORE module and multiple SID PCBs? There are tons of other questions I'd like to ask but they don't come in my mind for now.

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With a backlight and no contrast ajustment, anything is pretty easy to read.

I can get some for 9$CAD and inverter for the backlight for 5$CAD. Mouser sell some for around 10$USD without backlight I think. Digikey can provide you some inverters but they're not cheap. IMO finding an LCD between 10-20$USD with a LED backlight is a good deal. You don't need these noisy, power line noise making, losing power with time inverters.

Except from a Sega custom chip, everything is DIP. To listen genesis(megadrive) files: Get some GYM files(Genesis/MegaDrive songs dumped to files) http://www.zophar.net/gym/ Install YMAMP plugin in Winamp 2.x/5.x and play the files.