Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi all,
 
Ordered my SID! (might even arrive today :-)
 
I am a little confused though...:
Reading the SidStation site, it states that both the C64 and Amiga used the
MOS6581SID chip.
But reading the Rob Hubbard article, he mentions that the Amiga uses a much
more advanced chip called Portia ("the Amiga's rathermore impressive sound
chip").
 
Any comments?
 
Thanks for having me,
Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Reville [mailto:breville@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 2:12 PM
To: elektron-users@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [elektron] multivoice



> > I agree...the SID is nothing but a bunch of registers...it takes an
> > intelligent programmer to organize the code to get sounds from it.
Then,
> > it takes another layer of intellgigence and organization to get songs
from
> > the instruments.  
> 
> An interview with a guy who managed that bit quite good actually can
> be found here:
> 
> http://www.analogue.org/network/ <http://www.analogue.org/network/> 

awesome!

Final questions -- am I right in guessing that the polyphony tables were
implemented to allow for really fast effects like Rob talks about?
Effects that are too fast for MIDI to trigger?

How fast can the tables be "executed" on the SidStation?  From a quick
look at the manual, it looks like it can be three times faster than
playing 1/64 notes?  (if speed is set to 1, going by the oscillator/pitch
table on page 20)  am I right?

thanks

- Brendan



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