19 Apr
2007
19 Apr
'07
1:55 p.m.
James Stone wrote:
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??
the vice emulator must be doing sth. like this. http://www.viceteam.org/
the SID is pretty simple. it had 3 kinds of oscillators + noise
generator; ADSR ; a simple hi/low pass filters and a ring modulation. -
if you're just interested in the "sounds" not compositions, you should
be fine with any synth ;) eg. zynaddsubfx
some more advanced C64 tunes made use of shaping the master-volume, and
other tricks...
depending on where you want to go... use xmms' sid-plugin or vice's x64
to generate/play some sounds.. -> jack -> record. -> edit
(vice is using OSS -> you'd need the fusd kernel module to get it jacked.)
#robin