Elektron Musical Instruments

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> From: "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@...>
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 02:45:43PM +0100, Joeri Vankeirsbilck wrote:
> 
> > Well, wouldn't it be nice to have individual SysEx control of all
> > parameters?  Or just the ones that can't be controlled over CC's would
> > already be a great help!
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, when the SIDStation is in ASID mode, _all_ of its
> parameters are tweakable via sysex in "real time."  ;)  (well, as
> real time as MIDI can be.)

Well, you're correct that all of the SID-chips parameters are controlable
over MIDI, up to 50 times per second (if all registers are updated). This
could be used for an external synthesizer to program. But with this you
loose all of the SidStations parameters. The SidStation is turned into a
dumb slave - much like a HardSID card. So that means you'd have to
implement all features like the LFO's, portamento or tables in the host
software.

This is mainly meant for external emulation, like SIDPlay. Or an interface
could be made for a full C64 emulator to get true SID-sound.

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__///Daniel Hansson           |   SidStation - MOS6581 Synthesis
\XX/ daniel@...   |         www.sidstation.com