Elektron Musical Instruments

Hello!

Both Yes and No... mostly No :).
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. 

// Josef ( still waiting for that protocoll, Anders - ta \ufffdt dig :))

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On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Dr. Whammo wrote:

> Greetings to elektron peeps and Cheers to all my european friends.  I am new to the list as I have just ordered a SID from drum machine museum last week... (still waiting... grr).  I will probably be writing many more letters in the future as I learn the intricacies of the SS (cute acronym, huh?).
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> But first of all, I have a question - I was listening to some old C64 tunes the other day on a SID emulator, and I was wondering if it would be possible (from a hardware perspective) to allow the SIDstation to have a MIDI channel allocated for EACH oscillator, so you could end up having 3 different MIDI channels playing seperate things.  For some reason this strikes me as being theoritcally possible (given the extremely minor amount of data I have), but as always I could have overlooked something quite basic.  Can anyone elaborate on this?
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Greetings to elektron peeps and Cheers to all my european friends.  I am new to the list as I have just ordered a SID from drum machine museum last week... (still waiting... grr).  I will probably be writing many more letters in the future as I learn the intricacies of the SS (cute acronym, huh?).

But first of all, I have a question - I was listening to some old C64 tunes the other day on a SID emulator, and I was wondering if it would be possible (from a hardware perspective) to allow the SIDstation to have a MIDI channel allocated for EACH oscillator, so you could end up having 3 different MIDI channels playing seperate things.  For some reason this strikes me as being theoritcally possible (given the extremely minor amount of data I have), but as always I could have overlooked something quite basic.  Can anyone elaborate on this?


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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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