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193 Reply by CMDR Jan 21, 2010 3:12 pm

Re: Plogue Chipsounds (28 replies, posted in Audio Production)

The inability to midi map in ableton live makes it very slow to use (drawing out midi changes in clips).
To manipulate with a midi controller you have to set up CC's through the controller, which is annoying, because with ableton I like to be able to do stuff on the fly.
However, it is great for portability, if I want to make some chip stuff from home I have something to jot down ideas in.

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194 Reply by CMDR Jan 18, 2010 4:50 pm

Re: FS/FT: My shit - kp3 dmg protools (27 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Sorry but I found out (as you have probably read in the ami/cmd forum) that I don't need the sid right now, and being poor i'm not going to buy something that I don't need

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195 Reply by CMDR Jan 18, 2010 4:49 pm

Re: Can I plug a 6581 sid into a c64-c? (3 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Nah, I didn't find that but thanks for searching for me, I must have missed it.

The post I was referring to is http://www.prophet64-forum.com/viewtopi … 59&p=2
Maybe it only applies to 6581 boards, I don't know.

'TRS is short for "tip, ring, sleeve" meaning three conductors, as you correctly assume. One is for the audio out signal, one is for the ground, and the third I'm guessing goes to audio in for the noise reduction. So I guess the ground is connected to the two other points. Please note I'm guessing here,, so wait for confirmation, but it sounds right.

You need a balanced, or "stereo" 1/4 jack. Not an unbalanced "mono".

As for soldering, it's easiest to solder to the bottom of the motherboard, at the points where the video port is soldered onto the board.

See:
http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Commodore_C64_Video
for the correct pins.

Trace the pins to the solder points at the bottom of the board and there you go. As for where on the 1/4 connector to solder these, I'm not sure. I used rca (phono) plugs for my mod.'

I just bought two 8580 sids so I will test it out when they arrive, but I wasn't connecting the audio out to the second pin on my trs socket.

I'm a very big electronics noob

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196 Topic by CMDR Jan 18, 2010 3:23 pm

Topic: Can I plug a 6581 sid into a c64-c? (3 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Just want to clarify this before I go ahead and buy this off of Godinpants.
I killed my SID after trying the noise reduction mod drunk, silly me!
Can anyone tell me the pinouts of the video din socket solder side, and if I need to add a cap.
I've tried the method that Alpha documented and it didn't work (before it died), and read that connection pin 5 to ground (2) is a better option, but the info on MSSIAH forum is hazy.

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