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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
