Yes. it's a cool machine.
Some people from Sinclair's company have left it to make a new ZX Spectrum compatible model by themselves. What is interesting, Sam Coupe wasn't a developed version of ZX 128K, but it was a developed version of ZX48K.
Of course contemporary it can also handle Spectrum128's programs but that's a different story of nowadays coders. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/s … hp?t=29437
It would be nice to have one however they are most rare and _really_ expensive.

Awesome!  Going to toss them on the Pig! 

Cheers wedanced! I hope that they are of some use to you

thanx little-scale.

i love your sample packs.

I've made a sample pack of this chip.

http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2010/0 … ample.html

Thanks, that clears some things up a bit.  Yeah LGPT can send MIDI CC's but I try to not overly complicate the MIDI section of it and focus more on the actual sample tracking.

There is no duty cycle control as such - and each voice per se doesn't have heaps of customisable features. For example, the generator only works on two of the six voices, and the two noise sources can only be controlled by the frequency of two voices or it can be set to two set frequencies. So as such, to my mind it makes more sense to just have a "magic box" as you say.

However, I am not aware of LGPT works - is it not able to send MIDI CC data?

Not necessary but I think it would be cool and streamline my live set up.  For instance I'd rather have controls straight on the synth then through a MIDI controller.  It would make using something like LGPT a lot easier as I could just send note CC's and then have a CS to control the instrumentation - which is just my preference.  What jumps to mind would be like pots for ADSR, duty cycle(?) or other modifiable aspects of this chip.  The demo sounds really great so I'd be interested no matter what! 

Well, what sort of control surface did you have in mind? Do you think it is necessary for a device like the SAA 1099?

Jeez your unstoppable little-scale!  I'd be in for a PCB for sure.  Would this include any kind of a control surface, or would it just be a magic MIDI box?

Cool beans, it sounds really sweet man. It would be very nice to have a little Midi enabled board as you mentioned. Cool work

Oh yeah - here's a pic of my SA 1099:

Okay so my SAA 1099 chips arrived yesterday! Woo!

I made a MIDI interface for the chip, with control over all of the registers via MIDI CC including:
• panning
• expression (volume)
• all envelope registers
• all noise-related registers
• musically sensible pitch bends

SAA 1099 channels are mapped to MIDI channel 1 to 6.

Quick demo: http://chipmusic.org/little-scale/music … t-saa-1099

I'm thinking of getting a couple of PCB boards made up at some stage - would anyone be interested? Just a thought...

I ordered some chips! Can't wait to get into it

I have send email to author of SamCoupe emulator SimCoupe. So He will do WAV rendering into next SimCoupe release... So you will have ultimate tool for SAA tracking...