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Glory be to MidiBox.org

PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:56 am
by Futureman
Man.. I've now made a few projects with help from the kind people at midibox, (2 Sequencers) and I've just finished the gritty bit of another, and it's a killer.

I've built my version of one of their Sid synths, and this thing is a monster.

All the electronics are taken care of, now it's all cosmetic from here on in.
I'm planning on sticking it inside an old bang and olufsen stereo with a 2 octave keyboard. - kinda looks like a massive atari2600

It's got EIGHT SID chips under the hood, Which is the same sonic power as 8 Commodore 64's.. And it sounds mad! Each SID has 3 oscilators and 1 filter.. (24 oscilators in total)
You can run it in a super poly mode, which is 4 voice poly, with each voice being 2 SID chips (6 oscillators + 2 multimode analogue filters), running in true stereo.. Thats one massive polysynth!

I'm still playing with it, but it's 4:00am and I'm at work, so I thought I'd brag a little.

Regards
Mike

PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:33 am
by beatmad
Maybe you could post some audio samples? I'd love to hear it.

Re: Glory be to MidiBox.org

PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:29 pm
by Thirteen
Futureman wrote:Man.. I've now made a few projects with help from the kind people at midibox, (2 Sequencers) and I've just finished the gritty bit of another, and it's a killer.

I've built my version of one of their Sid synths, and this thing is a monster.

All the electronics are taken care of, now it's all cosmetic from here on in.
I'm planning on sticking it inside an old bang and olufsen stereo with a 2 octave keyboard. - kinda looks like a massive atari2600

It's got EIGHT SID chips under the hood, Which is the same sonic power as 8 Commodore 64's.. And it sounds mad! Each SID has 3 oscilators and 1 filter.. (24 oscilators in total)
You can run it in a super poly mode, which is 4 voice poly, with each voice being 2 SID chips (6 oscillators + 2 multimode analogue filters), running in true stereo.. Thats one massive polysynth!

I'm still playing with it, but it's 4:00am and I'm at work, so I thought I'd brag a little.

Regards
Mike


Can you play that cool C64 game on it with the robots in the underground lair?

Re: Glory be to MidiBox.org

PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:37 pm
by Futureman
[quote="Thirteen]
Can you play that cool C64 game on it with the robots in the underground lair?[/quote]

ummm... doesn't that describe 50% of commodore 64 games?

I've just found a funky thing it does, which is kinda like the korg monopoly with it's voice rotation.. except way better. Crystal Castles better watch out, at least I won't be stealing other peoples riffs. (We do steal samples of crappy 70's & 80's tracks all the time tho)

PostPosted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:50 pm
by JulienG
This thread is useless without pics, er, audio.