SID Station defended

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 I feel that all of you chiming in on this thread "for $500! no way!" about the
Sid Station are overlooking some key points about it..(yes I admit I do not own
   one or ever got to play with one..I have owned a C64 and played with synth
   emulator software for it so i am well acquanted with the sounds)...well my
  point is for your $500 you are getting a modern analog synth with midi that
 IMHO is more powerfull (with its 4 vco's ecet and midi) than any $500 "mint"
 Minimoog, mg-1, prodigy, arp odsy, arp axxe ecet ecet you will ever find..not
 to mention far easier and cheaper to repair..the only rare chip inside is the
 SID chip and if you search the web youll find comodore repair places that have
  them for $20 or so..or entire c64's in swap sheets at flea markets and lawn
  sales for between $25-$50 or less...I notice many posting to this thread are
 proudly relating their personal "war stories" of hundreds of hours they spent
 long ago trying to hack togethor their own mostly non midi version of the SID
 station...If back then I ask you fellows if you thought the SID chip to be so
  inferior why did you bother spending so much time on it? Indeed it is these
 endless "I spent 18,001 man hours trying to hack the exact same thing as this
 sid station (or fill in the blank device) that is now selling for $500 and the
 parts only cost me $27 total (you guys fail to mention this was in 1984 or at
      least 10+ years ago..and of course you never got around to making a
   professional looking case either..you gave up with a half assed rats nest
   breadboard when the wife left with the kids during your nervous breakdown!
                                     lol!)
  So at least have some respect for the sid station producers who are at least
 producing an honest non Japanese Synth Giant product (roland , korg ecet) that
is cleverly not a romplaying 64 page lcd menu device...and at least tell anyone
  who asks "Should I buy one?" they try to hear/play one thelmselves and then
 decide..just give these honest sid station manufacturers a break...IMHO I feel
  for someone who does not have a good workshop with instruments and supply of
  parts that could alone do nothing to maintain a minimoog, arp ecet than the
 usual external through the little holes in the case trimpot calibration , and
       who would have to beg or pay a real tech to keep his prize analog
running..these sid stations are the way to go...even if they had to pay someone
 $20 or so to teach them how to unsolder and remove and replace i.c.'s I would
    think 1 sid chip spare would be enough..I am not singling anyone out for
                                   criticism
  my feeble attempt at sarcastic humor was meant to be genaric...best regards
    PS:  I have noticed that the same crowd with their personal sid chip war
 stories love to knock all of the new PAIA analog modules with the same type of
 war stories...likewise they allways fail to mention they when they build their
 versions used a combination of : 1. bags and bags of new parts "borrowed" from
     work...2. heaps of parts from the dumpsters behind work...3. parts of
 questionable quality from many such questionable providers! HA!  And likewise
  the PAIA 9700 series $80 kit cost them NOTHING, in fact they MADE $200 when
they were paid to haul to the dump the truckloads of the parts!  Of course they
 never mention how much their 1687 hours of labor was worth...they like to then
  based on the above claim "WHAT!!!  $125 FOR THE PAIA XXX MODULE!! NO WAY !!
 THAT GUY IS A CROOK!!   Where would you all be left without people like PAIA,
      SID station, MOTM ecet ecet??? All gladly spending 12,000 hours each
         reinventing the vco ecet! HA!!  I gladly await your flames!!!
Guido Goebertus wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Quint wrote, amongst other very interesting stuff:
>
> >Feelin the flames already
> >Quint
>
> No flames.
> I wonder if this SIDStation is an emulator as well.
> As I posted before I was never able to program this chip properly..
> .
> But I've heard a few samples on the FutureMusic CD, also downloaded
> a few songs  for my Atari SID player.
> These are simple but very interesting sounds, pure and electronic, like
> the first synth I heard and knowing it was one. Probably 'Switched on Bach'
> or 'Lucky Man', I forgot , and yet very different.
> Nice job, I quess.
> But $500 ??? No thanks.
> But maybe programming my own stuff like that is a nice idea, for a change,
> the characteristic sound  seems to be a very fast arpeggio....
>
> Guido
>
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