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(4 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

There is no fix to the limitations of the sid2sid board. You just have to accept it for what it is and decide to love it or not. You are correct with the ideas for the workarounds though. Pull the audio from where you like and feed it to the jack. Might as well ground the audio input of the second sid, if you're doing surgery.  I've seen people pull the audio directly from the chips outputs and feeding them to jacks. I would advise you to make peace now with the fact that you could hasten the end of the machines natural lifespan by altering it without understanding the electrical consequences. If you're cool with that, do it. There are tons of links for more info.

So what kind of loca(osaka 6/7 or brown tube?), and how long, and what way did you cure it?

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'm sure there are those who would argue that the golden age of chiptune was 1989. It came around full circle around 2010 and perhaps completes another cycle around now? Time will tell.  Every conciousness node has the potential for discovery. Even if the idea is ancient, it's new to you, and very, very exciting. And then, there's the cultural phenomena of recycling fashion/music of previous generations. The story has essentially remained the same since that first monkey discovered that rhythm existed around it, and banged it out into the air with sticks and rocks. (Later, one pretended to own the rhythm and charge bits of meat and seed and shiny rocks to any other monkey who discovered that there was rhythm.) But you have the chance now to improvise your part within the main progression, started on a groove sooo long ago. Have fun!

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(2 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Kitsh bent has usb 64mb for $42. Nonfinite has an sd cart for $70.
I got an el cheapo cart from benn venn when his shop said sold out one time.  I sent an email and he hooked it up.
Where have all the flash carts gone? Weird supply moment?

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(2 replies, posted in Releases)

Awesome! Rolling hard.

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I've been a musician of some type for awhile. I like the expressive and discovery aspects of it. I have been playing chip type stuff for a little bit. I just want to thank everyone for cutting down the jungle and laying down this road and the continued work done on it so it doesn't crumble away and fade back to jungle. We're all very lucky to stumble into this and find it fully formed and available for the taking. So thanks for being there and for adding your energy/time/life for this to be something we can all share in...or not.
And I just read the link in the last post on that Sneven tracker thread. Pretty inspiring shit. I've been interested in learning the programming side of this, so I guess I should get serious with C++.

Any word on this? I want this type of thing. I have been a good boy this year.

Rip the sound chip out of the atari, get a teensy board and  make a TIA synth. The gods require sacrifice. Or check out the pc based TIAtracker on some other thread here... maybe get a harmony cart and transfer those files to it so u can play them on hardware...idk how that all goes. I don't have one.
Cynthcart is cool for recording and layering. Even a simple looper pedal.  Midi cc's make it crazy if you like.
Mssiah Is cool for all of the different apps. Also setting up 3 different sounds on seperate midi channels to play live or record. 6 sounds If you want to dual SID the beast. For the mouse problem, The best mouse converter is a micromys v4. Use any old ps/2 mouse.
The SD2IEC is the way to go. Run a native tracker or transfer SIDs from pc based tracker. And just for listening to RAD SIDs and playing Zak McKracken  and the alien mindbenders, Zork (all of the infocom titles), and wasteland!

The cat at the end of the video looks like rasputin a bit. In the eyes. Cool bends. The wobblyish stuff with the lfo on the filter was my favorite. The filter sounded lovely. Adding a filter to things without one is one of the nicest things a human can do for a machine.

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(73 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I don't mean to discount the human listener. Without us there is no point to music. I don't mean it to be only math. It is that, but the desired end result is to make a brain squirt pshychoactive chemicals all over the place. Math actually helps one do that. Let's all make psychoactive brain chemicals squirt all over the place. Humans have a range of emotions. Music has a range of  sounds that make resonant frequencies that make brains squirt different chemicals that make us resonate with emotion, memory,  and fantasy. Punk is one aspect of it. All experiences share this.

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(73 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Inevitably, all things are the same thing. No matter what source of noise you have, you are still confined to the idea of the "music" construct. The rules laid out by chemistry, physics, and math. All of the other stuff is decoration. Fashion,which is the funniest (I can tell from your uniform that you are a nonconformist.) Attitude (fashion for personalities? ) and tonality, riff types (arps, two handed tapping guitars, power chords...) of music genres are merely things that define an idea in the mass mind.   If you're trying to have a social message with your music and words, then that is punk no matter what the music is. Folk is way more punk than most punk rock in that aspect.

Originality only happens once. Then anyone can do it.

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(73 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Sometimes I get super drunk and pee in places no one wants pee. How punk is that?

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(11 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Thank you!  This is sooo cool.

xmfg.de/Bending/bend.html
This guy shows you everything you want about casio mt-68.

I want to get rid of the drums and have only the notes sounding. I saw how to kill the beep that happens when you push a button. That makes this way better. If I could switch off the drums when using the note sequencer this would rule pushed through some dirt into a filter. Github has a file with some YM3427 info, but I'm not informed enough to know if the info I want is in there or not...

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(8 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Welcome to the club!