Where can i get plug in that sounds like the 1st soundcards?

google for

- Plug in,
- 8 bit
- game sounds
- atari synth
- commodore sounds

etc.; bet you'll find something. That kind of stuff is increasing in popularity recently.

ahh maybe a specialist area of mine sid station isn't made any more

there is a new unit

http://www.hardsid.com/

which is 4 sid chips in 1 unit. (you have to canibalise the 4 sid chips out of 4 c64's though..Noooooooo )

I am tempted to buy one of these though >

http://www.prophet64.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFPfsKI_Qck


vst wise you could use things like.... quadra sid by re-fx , or unknown 64 .. it's a close replacement.. BUT the real c64 sid has a better sounds.

you can of course listen / download sid tunes, BUT don't be a loser like timbo and rip them off and then not pay the original composer (acid jazz evening) . Anyone who does that gets found out an outted for their blatant disrespect of using others talent.

there are another few things, that you could get... download "winvice"

http://www.viceteam.org/

within them use something like "sid duzz it" by GRG or "ems" by cosine

http://home.eunet.no/~ggallefo/sdi/index.html

http://www.cosine.org.uk/products.php?4mat=c64&cat=tool

or goat tracker

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13367

the basic sounds on the machines are basic wave forms, sine / saw / triangle.. BUT twisted up by using arpegio etc

you could even get a "tracker" program and make sequences using that, and import them into a final tune..


if you just want a tune to use in a video like a youtube one, then you can use a sid tune off "high voltage" BUT credit the original artist.

Martin Galway , Jereon Tel, Rob Hubbard, Tim Follin all did excellent tunes, theres many more I could reel off , there many names.

heres a very good example of what can be done..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQNT9Whg4r4&feature=related

4 sound channels... 3 using on board sound card... and the extra "digi" channel...4 bit sampling .. and ALL in 64k

if you want that crunchy sample sound, well just use one of the many bit crusher type effects.. loads of synths have them, including the cake ones..

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/

is also nice.. tim follin's agent x tune , 5 channels. but it was only a 1 channel sound card..

http://www.myspace.com/tempestchipmusic

has some nice examples and you can download his work... esp.. acid jazz evening.. and then compare it to Nelly's "do it" , acid jazz evening pre dates SIX years before..

I made this with Cakewalk Project 5 http://wdi-productions.com/I%20Love%20Coffee.html . I'm pretty sure a lot of it just uses the Dreamstation softsynth. Not quite the same sound, but video gamish sounding.

Wow Fog, those are some good links. One of them led to a "top 100" sid chip songs or something like that. I downloaded a player and some of the songs and there are some really interesting ones there. And if the player is actually doing a good emulation of the sid chip, then I just gotta say that that thing sounds beautifully trashy. The filtered sawtooth is such a cliche, but coming out of that thing... it was... whoa. I'm gonna have to look some more into that thing.

ORIGINAL: Fog
rosabelle was it a link to sid tunes, or a youtube video? if it's the top 100 games on youtube, that's only half the story.

It was the The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) Downloads Page . They have a monster 68 meg collection (of just sid files! not mp3s! How many songs is that?) but also a Top 100 collection which is what I downloaded.

Off of that page is a link to a Winamp plugin and instructions to play the sids an actual Commodore 64! Wonder if I could dig one of those up, to hear the real deal.