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Lick of paint for Sidstation?

2005-04-24 by fiendishfeat

Hi,
 I know this has been mentioned before in the past, and that 
Elektron provided many good reasons why it's a very serious decision 
for a synth manufacturer to consider, but does anyone have any new 
thoughts on a Sidstation OS update?

According to the usergroup archives, various people have their own 
requests for a Sidstation update, and my preference (read craving) 
would be the ability to address the oscillators separately on 
different MIDI channels - I feel this would not only open up the 
potential of the machine hugely, but that it would further 
invigorate users' passion for writing pure sidtracks like back in 
the day, without having to use an emulator or a real C64 to create 
a .sid file, to then play through ASid. I wouldn't have brought this 
up yet *again*, but with the new influx of Sidstation owners that 
will undoubtedly hit this community thanks to Elektron's recent chip 
discovery and production spurt, I think it's time for some debate on 
this and for people to think again about what it is they think would 
be a really worthwhile addition to the Sidstation's software-
adjustable capabilities. 

So would this even be possible via an OS update - separate 
oscillator addressing? Do people still want, as they've mentioned 
inthe past, a 'test trigger' button, for listening to patches while 
programming with just a pair of headphones, away from the mixing 
desk? Anything we haven't heard before?

Thanks everyone:)

Bren

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