hi! i saw this mbsid too on ebay but i thought that sale must have been approved by TK if it's being sold. and i can understand very well if people here are upset if they're really investing time and power to give help, good ideas and new projects for free. if you've read through the forum you know there's lots of asking and answering done and everyone likes it this way. i'm an example for a complete loser or beginner too. all projects i've begun till now used to fail too, because i don't have enough skills or in order to not knowing whom to ask for help. such are e.g. some 8 step analog sequencer, a 2 octave cv keyboard and last year a trigger to midi convertor of PAIA to convert my drum trigger pulses into midi note-ons... all was failing. but they're still here and i'll look if i can manage or somehow get to know what i done wrong. last year i've also bought 10 SID chips from WILBA (thanks) which are still in their envelope because i couldn't finish that PAIA crap yet. and there are other projects here i'm interested in, eg the FM synth, the MB64 controller, midi to cv and of course the MBsequencer (everything, everything). but if you're sure you don't like doing it by yourself there's always the possibility to say ok i don't need 8 voice sid sound, so here's an auction on ebay where you can buy a selfmade sidstation (said to be older) but of course i don't know if it really isn't a midibox sid. here's the link: http://cgi.ebay.de/SID-SYNTHESIZER-CUSTOME-MADE-3-VOICES-OF-8-BIT-HEAVEN_W0QQitemZ280300059656QQcmdZViewItemQQptZStudioequipment?hash=item280300059656&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1229%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 and an original elektron sidstation (with original price of course): http://cgi.ebay.de/Elektron-Sid-Station-MOS-6581-8-Bit-Synthesizer-RARE_W0QQitemZ110328834905QQcmdZViewItemQQptZKeyboards_MIDI?hash=item110328834905&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177 i don't actually know a) if at least the links are functioning that way if i copy & paste them here b) if it's ok to link to non-mb-sales in order to not persuading s.o. to become builder ...but as you can see, i don't even know how to add a picture to my name <--
