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offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2006-07-15 11:21 [#01938022]
Points: 7746 Status: Regular



i've been looking into this whole 8bit stuff, and i love
the sounds.

i'm considering building up a bogstandard PC just so i can
run a HardSID Quattro on it (slaved to my Atari)....

has anyone got any experience messing with SID stuff,
particularly the HardSID Quattro?

i had looked at the SIDstation by Elektron, but i've heard
some people saying they're quite noisy (background hum and
fuzz) and require a lot of gating to get a cleaner sound.


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2006-07-15 13:55 [#01938055]
Points: 2466 Status: Lurker



You can get 2 versions of the sid chip for the hard sid
cards. 1 is the original (and best) which comes with all the
bad noise as it should. The other is a later revision which
has alot cleaner sound.

If you get a hard sid card make sure you get both the chips
so you can switch betweem them.

The sidstation is just brilliant.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2006-07-16 05:11 [#01938220]
Points: 6427 Status: Lurker | Followup to sheffieldbleep: #01938055



The Sidstation is great, but bloody expensive now....
At least it was the last time I looked....

 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2006-07-16 05:13 [#01938222]
Points: 6427 Status: Lurker | Followup to futureimage: #01938220



Also, don't rely on getting one new:
" Stock report, SidStation: 0
Last SidStation shipped to UK on 2006-07-12. "

 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2006-07-16 05:30 [#01938230]
Points: 6427 Status: Lurker



Or DIY it! :D :D :D


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2006-07-16 07:27 [#01938246]
Points: 7746 Status: Regular



yeah i wanna get the version of the HardSID that has both
the 6581 & 8580 SID chips, so it's felxible

i've also been looking into the Prophet64 thing too, which
seems pretty cool :)

the 303 rip-off isn't bad considering what it is

 

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