James Stone wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:48:10PM +0200, Sebastian Gutsfeld wrote:
Hi James,
"James Stone" <jamesmstone@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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.
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..
hi james,
me also trying to get legasynth working for longer now, but this thread
moved me to try one more time and see:
http://home.jps.net/~musound/LegaSynth-0.4.1gcc33.tar.gz
here you get the version which is patched to compile with gcc-3.3 and
that works here.
all i did was to adjust that /usr/bin/cpp, gcc and g++ are showing to
the versions 3.3 and than running configure enabling jack - thats all.
it compiled here that way very nice and it is not running that much rock
stable but it is running!
i have to find out more things about how to use the appi, but for now i
only can say that it makes some very special sounds.
actually i like it!
perhaps you try this version too.
cheers,
doc
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
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