[LAU] SID chip emulation?

[Dragan Noveski]

James Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:48:10PM +0200, Sebastian Gutsfeld wrote:
>   
>> Hi James,
>>
>> "James Stone" <jamesmstone at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>     
>>> Does anyone know of a linux based synth that emulates the sound of the
>>> C64 SID chip? I would love to use that sound in some pieces, but I
>>> have never been able to find anything very usable.
>>>
>>> Perhaps something could be used from the libsid/libsidplay libraries??
>>>       
>> Sidplay2 uses ReSID for sound emulation. There are two other programs I
>> know of that use this library:
>>
>> * Goattracker (http://cadaver.homeftp.net) but you have to be familiar
>>   with a tracker interface and some SID internals
>>
>> * VICE C64 emulator (http://www.viceteam.org)
>>
>> Try Paul Slocum's Cynthcart (http://qotile.net/cynthcart.html) or the
>> good old JCH editor (http://chordian.dk/files.htm?c64) with its cool
>> polyplay mode for realtime play on the computer keyboard.
>>
>> Another option is Legasynth
>> (http://www.reduz.com.ar/cheesetronic/index.php?section=4), but I don't
>> think this sounds very close to a real SID.
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks for these suggestions.. They all sound quite sensible. I
> will look into them all.. sound like nice ways to generate good
> samples.
>
> Legasynth is closer to what I was envisaging though.. Although I
> have never managed to build it successfully.. I keep going back
> to it thinking "I've been using Linux for 6/7/8/9.. years now.. I
> _must_ be able to get it to work now" but with no success..
>   
hi james,
me also trying to get legasynth working for longer now, but this thread 
moved me to try one more time and see:

http://home.jps.net/~musound/LegaSynth-0.4.1gcc33.tar.gz

here you get the version which is patched to compile with gcc-3.3 and 
that works here.
 
all i did was to adjust that /usr/bin/cpp, gcc and g++ are showing to 
the versions 3.3 and than running configure enabling jack - thats all.

it compiled here that way very nice and it is not running that much rock 
stable but it is running!
i have to find out more things about how to use the appi, but for now i 
only can say that it makes some very special sounds.
actually i like it!

perhaps you try this version too.

cheers,
doc


> Perhaps I will go back and try again. IIRC, it depends on a load
> of old libraries that are not too common. If it doesnt sound much
> like a C64, I'm not so interested though.
>
> What I was really envisaging was a nice realtime synth with midi
> input and pref. jack output to generate some nice 8 bit sounds
> and some decent glitchy dirty sounding noises. I imagine
> something could be built under PD, but I don't really know where
> to start.
>
> I will also look into the vst plugin, which is probably closer to
> what I wanted, but I really object to using non-native audio
> stuff on Linux.. I have got stuff working before, and it always
> seems much more resource hungry, and less stable than it really
> should be.
>
> James
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