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I'm not *totally* full of shit.

xyce is two people (xylo & cerror), so you might want to look into xylo and cerror music as well. There are also some other musicians in that style like Malmen, Joule, Wiklund & Radix. Jakim, Zalza & Michu also do stuff in that style sometimes although perhaps less often. Really, all of these artists do other styles, too, and do a lot of music in general, so it might take some digging.

To be honest, it sounds more like a Radix song to me, but they all work with a lot of the same sort of timbres and song structures.

I have a feeling you're not going to get the sync license for that song. If I'm wrong and you've already lined up the license then I'd be interested.

How fast can you write parameters to the FM Expander?

Module music is generally going to be a decent bit smaller than any modern music format, even a heavily compressed mp3. It's just the nature of how module music works.

The MC6850P ACIA chip that deals with MIDI in the ST is IRQ driven and makes for extremely stable and accurate timing. All modern software MIDI goes through far more software and hardware levels than the Atari ST.

That said, a modern professional setup, configured well, can probably compete pretty well with an Atari ST in terms of accuracy. However, you generally won't see this sort of accuracy in an affordable, home studio setup. Most affordable MIDI interfaces (and any MIDI interface using USB) will have far more jitter and latency and will often be unable to keep up with a lot of very fast parameter changes.

Like you mentioned, it's not too hard to deal with latency. However, latency isn't the biggest concern. The biggest concern is jitter, which is where modern solutions generally suck. Most will even start to drop bytes when you send MIDI data too quickly. For most people, this will never be an issue because they're not sending MIDI data fast enough to notice or care about the minor jitter issues. However, if you're working in a chiptune aesthetic you're more likely to be pushing parameter and pitch changes extremely quickly and this is where you'll actually start to run into problems.

Digikey is a great place to find specific components like this. Just search for connectors and sort by your pitch and sizing requirements.

I like using using small molex or flat flex ribbon connectors, particularly if they are small SMT parts, since they are generally super low profile.

Examples include:

https://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/e … ND/1003008
https://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/e … ND/1786120
https://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/e … ND/1003189
https://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/e … ND/2180616