Hi,

(I have posted a similar message in general discussion before finding this thread)

I am BSC from Cologne in Germany and used to be a coder and musician on the Amstrad CPC in the late
80s and 90s. I have also written a tracker which was quite popular in the olden times called Soundtrakker.

A few years ago I got interested in the SID effect known from the Atari ST which I believed to be impossible
on the CPC until I saw a demo called "eklhaft" or so on the Spectrum. I started experimenting and came up
with some kind of SID player/tracker called "AYAY Kaeppttn" which is also on github:

https://github.com/BetaSoftCologne/AYAY

Last summer I got interested in this topic again and wrote another engine which mixes 3 virtual SID
voices into one, emulating some of the most common wave forms of the SID, which I am still working on.
There are some previews on soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/carl-carbunckel/tracks

Then, a few days ago, I learnt about an engine originally wrote for the Enterprise, first ported to the Speccy,
then the CPC which sounds absolutely awesome and apparently does some of the things better than I did.
BUT: My solution is less memory hungry (which is somewhat important to me as I would like to release
something at a demoparty based on this), so I am currently thinking about different options like cooperation
and such. It does probably not belong here but I am a bit frustrated to have found this other engine and
this some of my momentum for the project is gone.. Maybe that's why I am (also) here.. Looking for feedback,
new ideas, maybe some cooperation towards a production, positive energy in general smile

Anyway, I am looking forward to interesting discussions with you guys!

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(3 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hi,

I have just registered after seeing that there's a lot of interesting discussions around soundchip X emulating soundchip Y.
My current project is the AY (on the Amstrad CPC) emulating the SID. I know there have been some really great results
by others already, but I want to make something that could be released at a demoparty and I would love to cooperate with
someone who is good at composing (I am not) or merge my current ideas with others.

Some of you might know me for my Amstrad tracker or tunes which I have made in the 90s (a lot of covers and conversions
from C64, Amiga, SNES and others)

So, Hi everyone once again, good to be here,

BSC