Elektron Musical Instruments

>  Isnt there some kind of possibility of using 4-bit samples with the SIDs
>  oscillators?  Any way you could implement something like that? Even if it
> is only a second or two of sampling time, I bet you could get some really
>  funkaliscious experimental sounds.

Get yourself an SP-808, mate!  it's got a lo-fi effects patch that reduces
the sampling rate and number of bits.  It's a quick way to emulate those SID
and AY-3-2189 Digidrums.  It even lets you enable or disable the aliasing!

btw, does anyone have any idea how the actual programming was done that
let you use 4-bit samples on the C64?  I've seen it done by holding the
oscillators still, and modulating the master volume...but that would only
get you one voice, and I've seen plenty of sidTunes that have 3 instruments
playing along with a sample channel, so there must be a special technique
(andreas?)

-N