[sdiy] Re: Question for SN76477 / Darkstar owners - the sound?

[Rude 66]

ha ha! yes, sounds like a 76477 to me. the cool thing about it IS that it sounds like that.. no lush pads, powerful basslines, soaring leads or subtle pads. what you get is unusual mod routings, a lot of weirdness and a sid-chip quality sound. i love the thing, i have enough other stuff that does all the above, but nothing sounds like this silly chip machine..

ruud

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  From: CnMcDo at aol.com 
  To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl ; rdd at rddavis.org ; scottnoanh at peoplepc.com ; r.lekx at chello.nl 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:50 PM
  Subject: Question for SN76477 / Darkstar owners - the sound? 


  There's been a lot of talk about the SN76477 lately. Too bad they are imposible to find  now. Luckily I bought a chip about 2 years ago. I never got around to building anything with it yet mostly because of this Darkstar article... 

  http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/chaos.html

  The sample links are misdirected. To play the sample you have to be creative. Notice the main url and add "issues/". For example... 

  http://aural-innovations.com/issue7/s1.mp3

  Becomes... 

  http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/s3.mp3

  I hate to say it but, does the SN76477/Darkstar really sound this bad? Every one seems to rave about it, but these samples would lead on to believe otherwise. I'd hate to spend the time and money building a SN76477 based module and find it unusable. 

  Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks! 
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