Elektron Musical Instruments

>  Hows this sound?  A synth built around the sid chip..  with a fullsize 
>keyboard..  and a dedicated knob or slider for most of the available 

hrm .. well, i've got a full size keyboard here. it's got velocity etc..
it's just a standard midi controller (kinda low end too).
It's got pitch bend and modulation and a nifty data entry slider..

So you plug this into the sidstation and there you go! :)
Be creative, get a midi keys like this and whack a c64 badge on it!

>parameters...  It would be like any of the "analog modeling" synths out
there 
>today.  Give it a cool C-64 look and it would be a hit.  Too bad the chips 
>are in short order.

i think the sidstation looks much cooler than a c64.. the c64 is a clunky
(but loveable surely) looking 80s box..
Sidstation is absolutely beautiful swedish design!

As for "analog modelling" the mos6851 isn't really that. It's a digital
tone generator routed through a low-fi analogue filter and enevelope
generator of some sort..
Very interesting to read about its development [check it out :
http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/yannes.html ]
Yannes built it with synth technology in mind..

>I don't think programming the sidstation is bad at all, 
>and i dont have any problem with it, but imagine if it was like how i 
>described..

I think it's great ..
attach your PC sequencer to the SID and take hold of MIDI ..

>with a sequencer..

Or try out technotoys seq303 .. there's your sequencer..
go a workstation? .. there's your keys and your sequencer (plus cheese GM
to boot)..

>and some on board effects..

on board effects suck.. check out every synthbox .. delay, chorus, reverb!
get some guitar pedals ..

>damn

quit complaining! READ THE MANUAL! use your head! ;)
The sidstation is everything we wanted and more!

andrew