19 Apr
2007
19 Apr
'07
5:09 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:48:10PM +0200, Sebastian Gutsfeld wrote:
Hi James,
"James Stone" <jamesmstone(a)gmail.com> writes:
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..
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
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.