Elektron Musical Instruments

>has anyone ever heard of a device like the sidstation that uses POKEY 
>chips (some atari computers used em, (800, 400, et al...) and they 
>are capable of some pretty cool sounds in their own wright, 
>especially when you make them do things they arent supposed to.
>
>i could have sworn i saw something like this circa 1996, but maybe i 
>just dreamed it?
>
>i know theres at least 1 synth-tracker maker for gameboy 
>(nanoloop.com), does anybody know of any other videogame system hacks 
>like this?
>
>(i recall that the intellivision made some cool sounds, and of course 
>the venerable atari 2600 did.)

Texas Instrument designed a chip called SN76477 in the 70's, and there are
numerous project (well, a few anyway)on the web for building machines
around this chip. It really hase some interesting features i must say...

Is was design to be used in games and toys as a soundeffect generator!

The same chip is used in the product "DARK STAR CHAOS", so you can buy it
readymady aswell. Althou the dARKSTART dosn't even seem to hald 10% of the
features that exist in this chip!

Also, a project called DROID in soon ready in Denmark, a small syntheziser
wich can be used for making absolutley stunning sunds.. and... anything
you'd like! You totally have to check it out on http://www.droid.dk !

Roberth

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