Category: C64

  • SIDstick Appeared

    The SIDstick is a pocket-sized chiptunes player featuring:
    * Removable Storage supporting microSD cards, 1 card can hold 20,000 songs
    * 20+ hour battery life
    * Super Hi-Quality hardware-based playback at 31kHz sample rate, >16 bit resolution
    * Completely Open, hardware and software are available under the MIT license
    * Upgradable with connections on the board

    Here are the details of SIDcog, the core audio processor;
    * 31kHz sample rate
    * >16bit resolution
    * Full filter support – any combination of Lowpass, Bandpass and Highpass filter
    * Full envelope support with a logarithmic release/decay curve. ( uses the same logarithmic approximation as a real SID)
    * Supports all 4 waveform types
    * 16 steps main volume
    * Waveform reset bit works. (many Rob Hubbard tunes relies on this exact behaviour)
    * Ring modulation
    * Oscillator synchronization

    Get The SIDstick!.

    Too bad its emulated.. but looks fun.

    (thanks burnkit2600!)

  • Emulated MIDIbox SID AU and VST Appears!

    In the last weeks I re-implemented the MIDIbox SID sound engines in C, so that it is possible to run MBSID on a STM32 core, but also to emulate it accurately on a Mac or PC.  The AU/VST gives you the possibility to try some MBSID patches before building the hardware. The sound isn’t so fat like on the original, the filter sounds weak and there are a lot of aliasing effects when higher frequencies are played… but probably you will like it anyhow.

    Emulated MIDIbox SID AU and VST for Mac/Windows – MIDIbox Forum.

    Thx trash80!

  • Cynthcart midi interface project page appeared

    We previewed the device earlier, but now full schematics are available online.. and should be usuable for things other than Paul Slocum’s cynthcart.

    The MIDI interface translates midi signals to key presses on the C64. It also simulates two potentio meters, which can be used for the cutoff-, LFO-, pitch bent- and pulswidth-modulation. After installing the PCB into your C64, it’s possible to use the C64 as a regular machine, because the keyboard is still connected, although trough the PCB. One must however make some sort of link to the joystick port to enable the use of the potentio meter functionality (see video for an example -i’ve used an USB connector-).

    The controller uses two midi channels. Channel 1 is for all note information; channel 2 is used for synth-functions/params. MIDI-CC channels 12 and 13 are used for the potentio meters.

    via .:: NebulaH’s homepage ::..

  • TCTD micronews for 2009-12-30

  • raquel meyers ‘RETIREMENTOLOGY’ Goto80

    via raquel meyers