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Re: Lick of paint for Sidstation?

2005-04-26 by analogback

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "fiendishfeat" <bren@l...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> 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. 

that would be SUPER!! and i think its possible.. www.ucapps.de 
also being able to address cc parameters in the wavetable would be 
powerful addition too, albeit complicated.

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? 

OK YEAH!!

Anything we haven't heard before?

res available via cc??

> 
> Thanks everyone:)
> 
> Bren

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