RogB

Hi nILS, thanks for the reply and the welcome! interesting to see that its kind of compatible with hardsid. Have you tried it with Goattracker? is there any latency when playing notes? Presumably this means it works with winVICE too so you get authentic hardware sound from the emulator? I've been digging around and stumbled upon this: http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fnp-sid which seems to be one of yours! USB is cool, were there any plans to produce pcb's and kits for this? I may just take the plunge and go for a sammichSID. it looks like a fun build (if I dont screw it up too much!. Way beyond anything i've soldered before though, so might have to get some practice in first. Or get a CORE and 2 SID modules and do it a little bit at a time? thanks for the help, I know it must be frustrating to get questions like this when theres a lot of information available, but thats the problem, its very overwhelming, very quickly! :) cheers Roger

Hi all, Im new to this Midibox SID thing, and trying to do some research but struggling a bit, I hope you dont mind the newbie questions! Basically, what I want to do is make c64 style chipmusic, which means relatively close to the restrictions of the original (well, with 2 sids) hardware. (im not too interested in using the SID as a modern synth - like massive polyphony, stereo, or emulating 303's) So looking at the sammichSID, I see that it has 2 SID chips. from demos i've seen, its usually dedicated to one task in a song (like a bassline) So its hard to get a feel for how flexible it is. I understand that the Midibox uses these things called 'engines' so presumably this is why its dedicated to one task?. (like lead where you can use polyphony, or bassline) If I was to use it in a traditional way, i'd need 6 seperate monophonic channels, usually dedicated to one or more instrument. eg SID1 1 - bass 2 - lead1 3 - lead2 SID2 4 - bassdrum + hihat 5 - snare 6 - effects (This would all be entirely mono. i realise the original c64 has only 1 sid and 3 channels but I dont want it to be hard for the sake of it!) :) Is this what the Multi Engine is capable of? I think multitimbral is the word.. (midi isnt my strong point!) :) I suppose what im looking for is similar to using Goattracker with a HardSID uno (the player, not the VST unit), but the hardsid players only support one SID at once. This MSSIAH video is also very similar to what I mean. Its got 6 channels (using 2xSids) and each channel is using a different instrument. sorry for the rambling and also if this is a common question, I hope some of it makes sense. many thanks! Roger