[florian]

hello at all .. this is my first post here... I am actually interested in doing a sid synth from you, it will be the sammich or the mb 6582....
But i can't arrive to decide... Can someone tell me the aproximatively total cost for an mb 6582 without sids?? ( i know it's not very objective, but it's for a first mind...)
and also number of hours of work????thanks... i think i will grab a sammich, but who know??? thanks!!

[Hawkeye]

MB6582: ca 500-800€ depending on your component sourcing & customs duty avoiding abilities, component-type (encoders and display can make it cheaper or more expensive) and general pimping desires :-)
Hours: you can do the baseboard in one night. The CS takes a little bit longer (I would guess ca 10-20 hours).

Greets,
Peter

This post has been edited by Hawkeye: 29 June 2011 - 20:50

[florian]

thanks for the answer..... I would use it in final with maschine or machinedrum... So if i just do the sammich, always have some more controllers to edit the samich... would it be easy or not??? by the way i was searching for the sammich and mb 6582 manual but don't find the links...if they exist...maybe there is only the midiboxsid2 manual??

[Hawkeye]

The sammich sure is a good starting point, you can control it via external MIDI controllers nicely.
The MB6582 is good for higher polyphony in lead instruments.
As a very interesting scalable alternative you can only build the MB6582 baseboard and add SIDs as you go can obtain them - and control everything via MIDI or the Rutgers Patch manager.
Regarding the manual - the MBSID V2 manual is it - the MB6582 is "just" an awesome integrated/non-modular variant of it.

This post has been edited by Hawkeye: 29 June 2011 - 20:57

[florian]

thanks! i just download the manual, will read it before all in order to try to understand how these box are editable, and which is the better for my setup....want the control from one side, the cheap thing on the other.... first rtfm, and see what would be my choice!!! thanks, i surely come here in one or two day after reading it! bye

[julienvoirin]

500€ and 2 weeks (soldering is fast) machining is long (JB Weld takes 3 days minimum considering drying time)

[florian]

read most of the manual, i would stick for the samuch for instant, mainly for financial and time reasons, and to not go in the hell of sourcing thanks!!!

[florian]

just a last question: if i build a 6582 with just 4 or two sid, total price will be reduced ??? thanks

[Hawkeye]

florian, on 01 February 2012 - 23:38, said:

just a last question: if i build a 6582 with just 4 or two sid, total price will be reduced ??? thanks

Yes, approximately by the cost of four or six sids No other cost-savings there besides only partially putting sockets and cores on the baseboard, but this is not to be recommended!...But, as mentioned before, you can skip the CS at first, populate only 2 or 4 sids and use rutgers fantastic java-based editor to control the thing. Then, it is quite cheap and already very powerful!

Greets,
Peter

This post has been edited by Hawkeye: 02 February 2012 - 02:30

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florian, on 01 February 2012 - 23:38, said:

just a last question: if i build a 6582 with just 4 or two sid, total price will be reduced ??? thanks

You can use only one SID on each module and use them in mono mode. That way you would save the cost of 4 SIDs. The limitations of only using one SID per MBSID module are that you can not use any of the polyphonic features, have less voices in drum mode, only 3 OSCs in multi mode, and only one bassline at a time in bassline mode.