Elektron Musical Instruments

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 07:16:05PM +0000, Jotsif wrote:

> There is a special Sysex protocoll for the SS so you can control the
> Sid chip for "3 parts" tunes as in ASID mode but you can't control it
> from 3 different MIDI channels. This means that its mostly impossible
> to play three melodies simultaneous on it in a sequencer like Cubase. 

this is the single most frustrating thing about the sidstation for me.
I was originally planning on writing sid-style videogame music, but
without mapping the different voices to different MIDI channels, this is
impossible without multitracking...

it should be possible to build a MIDI-to-MIDI bridge which speaks SID
sysex on one end and standard MIDI on the other to emulate this
behaviour, or perhaps elektron could open up the source code for the
68HC12(?) microcontroller used in the sidstation?  Theoretically
speaking, of course.  ;)

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