Elektron Musical Instruments

> > one more question -- did all the original C64 music (like the soundtrack
> > to Commando, which I love) use this table concept to get their polyphony?
> > 
> > I guess I'm wondering whether the complication of tables for polyphony is
> > a result of the sid itself or the sidstation, so I'm wondering where it
> > originated from..
> 
> I'm no expert - but as far as I have understood, the table thing is there
> to recreate what the very talanted sound *programmers* did on the c64, but
> tables never really existed on the c64, they where instead using assembler.

hmm.. I wonder whether the SID chip itself demands the use of tables?
Anyone know?