Commodore 64

[Byron Jacquot]

>I'm considering building a synth and integrating one of my half-dozen or 
>so spare C64's as a very programmable controller, waveform generator and 
>ADSR generator.  Has anyone else done this?  Is this a wise thing to do? 
>I know it'll save money...  :)

I played with a similar idea early last summer, using the C46's SID chip for 
some experiments.  I was trying to code a synth with a simple onscreen 
sequencer, plus some parameter control using the paddle interface.  I worte 
a lot of code in the C64's native, interpeted, basic.  I was able to get 
some pretty nifty sounds out, but the basic code ran too slowly to be of 
much use.

I looked into some of the other languages, but never really decided on one.  
There was talk of porting the GNU C compiler to the 6502/6510, but I'm not 
sure where that went, which might be the best way to go.  I also looked for 
assemblers, but never found anything to persue, and was then sidetracked by 
other projects...maybe someday I'll go back that way!

Byron