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the sid chip nom nom xp rawr. 6k. 64k. let me play around with your elektron sidstation for a night or two. did you know that the commodore 64 is \u201ccool\u201d and that i \u201clove\u201d it? that guy made ensoniq chips too. huh\u2026 chips\u2026\u2026\xa0

https://www.patreon.com/noranygard\xa0

the absolute inability to ever fully know anything. I recently learned that the earth is more than 6000 years old and stuff. sorry to be \u201cvulnerable\u201d but i just want to be honest and admit my mistakes :/

we just got agriculture like 12,000 years ago. this doesn't make any sense i\u2019m FREAKING OUT. earth is so old and meanwhile i can barely figure out what happened in the 80s. lost media. deep vapor. the demoscene, the pirates, the \u201cgerman spreading service\u201d\xa0

audio technology, pop music, sound design, culture\u2026 what\u2019s interesting to me? people, baby. people are what\u2019s interesting to me. is keygen music \u201cdead\u201d? is chiptune \u201cover\u201d? is video game music more pop music than pop music?\xa0

i\u2019m gonna do a few episodes on this crap. i want to take the time to follow rabbit holes, and learn how to pronounce mos technology.\xa0

i first touched the c64 when i was 16 or 17. this guy named paul slocum invented software called the\xa0cynthcart that somehow made its way into my psycho teen brain. i bought it and i bought a c64 on ebay in the late 2000s. paul\u2019s amazing band with a bad name is called \u201ctree wave\u201d and their ep is called cabana. i still think it\u2019s sick as hell, check out the song called \u201csleep\u201d it has this crazy my bloody valentine type vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0CAb0redQ

oh amazing check out these pictures i just found of tree wave. can\u2019t believe i\u2019m just seeing these for the first time:\xa0https://www.musicforlisteners.com/treewave.htm

(maybe i found the band on myspace back in the day..?)

here\u2019s paul slocum\u2019s cynthcart pdf:\xa0https://www.qotile.net/files/cynthcart2.0.pdf

i wanted to play the c64 alongside the ensoniq esq-1 in my band but alas i was too dumb to get it figured out at the time. here\u2019s an example of the\xa0mssiah software, it shows how much range the sid chip has as far as its synthesizer capabilities go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPE5WY5PPM \xa0

impossible mission, c64 speech, stay awhile stay forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_fDwX1VVY \xa0

im playing elden ring. im playing impossible mission. im playing the combination elden ring impossible mission. \xa0

october 1982 commodore 64 datasheet: http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_6581_sid.pdf

\u201cTwo A/D converters are provided for inter-facing SID with potentiometers. These can be used for \u2018paddles\u2019 in a game environment or as front panel controls in a music synthesizer, SID can process external audio signals, allowing multiple SID chips to be daisychained or mixed in complex polyphonic systems.\u201d \xa0

podcast interview with mark barton, the programmer behind sam the software automatic mouth: https://archive.org/details/Mark-Barton-Software-Automatic-Mouth/Mark+Barton+320.mp3 \xa0

email interview by a student at the vienna university of technology with robert yannes of mos technology, commodore 64, ensoniq: https://web.archive.org/web/20070222065716/http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/yannes.html\xa0

some key quotes from that interview: \xa0

\u201cI thought the sound chips on the market (including those in the Atari computers) were primitive and obviously had been designed by people who knew nothing about music.\u201d \xa0

\u201cWhen I designed the SID chip, I was attempting to create a single-chip synthesizer voice which hopefully would find it's way into polyphonic/polytimbral synthesizers.\u201d \xa0

\u201cThe SID chip was my first attempt at a phase-accumulating oscillator, which is the heart of all wavetable synthesis systems.\u201d \xa0

\u201cthe Oscillator is a 24-bit phase-accumulating design of which the lower 16-bits are programmable for pitch control\u201d \xa0

sound interface device. \xa0

some computer i hate! this computer? i love you.