Elektron Musical Instruments

Hello,
just a couple of days i own now the sidstation. I wonder how to
control the VOLUME of the Sid! Can't find anything in the manual...
For shure i can turn up the gain of my mixer, but..., is there any
controller at sid directly?
Stefan

I'm new here, so I guess this has been discussed already...


>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?

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?

Thanks,
Simon
Canberra
AUSTRALIA

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:20:53AM -0000, privat_joy wrote:
> just a couple of days i own now the sidstation. I wonder how to
> control the VOLUME of the Sid! Can't find anything in the manual...
> For shure i can turn up the gain of my mixer, but..., is there any
> controller at sid directly?

you might want to try fiddling with the sustain parameter of the
oscillators to get it louder.

there is very little in the way of external circutiry from the SID's
output to the jack; no volume pot or gain control...

-- 
  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

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