Elektron Musical Instruments

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:27:58PM +1000, Simon wrote:

> >there is very little in the way of external circutiry from the SID's
> >output to the jack; no volume pot or gain control...
> 
> Is there anything you can do to reduce the high noise floor, or is it 
> just like that coming out of the SID chip itself?

it's an inherently noisy chip.  there's really not a whole lot that can
be done.  on the c64 it was drowned out by the RF modulator.  ;)

> How does everyone handle the noise, just live with it/use gates/etc.? 
> And if using gates, how do they sound, do you lose any attack or is 
> the closing of the gate obvious?

I personally just live with it and program my patches to keep the
filters closed or low on release...  that helps quite a bit.

-- 
  Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@...
    "i'm convinced that the cray cabinet has an outlet for plugging in
    welding attachments."  --  Skeezics Boondoggle, on the cray CS6400