#Sid wizard vs goattracker 2 Patch
#Sid wizard vs goattracker 2 full
#Sid wizard vs goattracker 2 software

#Sid wizard vs goattracker 2 full

The back panel features a power switch, a power-in jack (8V AC), two 1/4' jacks for stereo out, MIDI IN and OUT jacks, two 1/4' audio output jacks, and a Stereo 1/4' main output jack, which doubles as a headphone out.Īnd to finish off this MIDI retro nostalgia, check out in this pic how good the Commodore SX64 looks when racked up in a studio full of Sequential Circuits stuff !!! thanks to this photo I NEED a SX64 in my rack immediately. Young Monkey designed back in 1988 this monster MIDI controller for the Commodore 64. The Hammond d'Eggs controller was designed specifically for use in live performance. It was easily disassembled for transporting and storage. The keyboard was removed from the Hammond Sounder and wired such that it was easily moved back and forth between the two units in a few minutes. The drum triggers were made from film cans, stuffed with pieces of blanket to deaden the sound.Ħ1 trigger switches (37 keys, 24 drums) were connected via this custom Commodore 64 parallel port interface. The port's 8 data lines were configured as 4 outs and 4 ins (8 bits). The 4 outs selected one of 4 '1 of 16 multiplexers', each capable of scanning up to 16 triggers (a maximum of 64). The 4 ins (4 bits = 16 triggers) returned data from these multiplexers.

#Sid wizard vs goattracker 2 software

The board is shown here without the multiplexer chips.Ĭustom designed software on the C64 performed MIDI routing to as many as 16 different MIDI devices (percussion and synth). I never realised before now that analog synths could go out of tune.Each switch was scanned in succession by a looping machine code routine. No matter what key I played, I couldn't get any of them to match up with the

#Sid wizard vs goattracker 2 Patch

I got close by setting the 'detune' parameter to 09 on the C64 patch options, but still not perfect. Tonight I tried to play the C64 as more of a synth, over another song - but the tuning issues again got in the way. I eventually got it to sound right by setting 'Transpose' in LSDJ to 05, but that doesn't solve the real problem. It wasn't till afterwards that I realised something was off with the C64's notes. The other day I hooked up my Gameboy running LSDJ with an Arduinoboy to play the main melody line through the C64 and double it up in the recording. It's hard to read the dials so it could be that I'm missing something really obvious, but I'd have expected some sort of more audible output with at least one of the default patches.Īfter a bit of a fight, I've got my C64 set up with a MSSIAH cart, and it's outputting sound grand. No big SID sound like I'm getting from the diagnostics.Īm I doing something stupid? Probably. I can hear some sort of change in the audio output - in that there's a very very quiet click or whirr at different frequencies depending on the patch, but there's no other output.

Play the keys with different Patches loaded. Set the Synth to MIDI mode so the screen goes blank.ģ. Go to Settings and set the MIDI option to 'C64 keyboard'.Ģ. The one problem is that when I get into Mono Synth and set it up to be played with the C64 keyboard, there's no audio output.ġ. Everything is working great, and the diagnostic tests show that the SID chip is fine - loud sounds coming out in response. I dug out my old C64 and MSSIAH cart combo and got it rigged up with an external monitor, with the intention to play it using the mono synth program.