Elektron Musical Instruments

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 11:04:01AM +0200, Daniel Hansson wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> 
> > sidplay and resid are software emulations.  port 'em to an embedded DSP,
> > connect up some MIDI, and there ya go.  virtual sidstation?  ;P
> 
> And who would be happier for that?

the same people who buy nord modulars, rebirth, protools, etc... who
would like everything "computer controlled," I would imagine.

> Also, remember that 90% of the development time for the SidStation has
> been the OS. The SID-chip is really basic. Many people think that
> LFO's, tables etc are native functions of the SID-chips. They're not.
> If you're supposed to get anything interesting out of a simple chip as
> the SID there is a lot of thinking and work to get it right.

so elektron could turn around and make a virtual sidstation (after all
sid chips are sold) by porting the OS to run under, say, windows, right?
(just kidding.)

> The eound emulation of SidPlay and Resid aren't that special.

the trickiest parts are in the 6502 emulation and timing...

> The filter is a very simple one that is nothing like the actual
> SID-filter.

very true.  the real SID chip has a very peculiar "shredding" to its
filter(s) which does not sound like anything else.

-- 
  Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@...