SID Station defended

[Guido Goebertus]

Hi Maciej, you wrote:

>You are free to prefer this little piece of crap over Mini, but I bet nobody would 
>exchange his old'n'dirty Mini or Odyssey to a new shiny SIDstation.
>
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>
>I listened to C64 many times and I must say it never impressed me. First of all,
>the allegedly powerful filter is a crap in comparison to Moog ladder. All the bleeps
>originated from the SID may be easily replicated using a simple but smartly 
>programmed synth, especially under uP control. 
>
>This is SYNTH-DIY not AH and it is perfectly ok to consider it in DIY terms, and NOT 
>in terms of full scale productions. For us it's a fun to design a new thing. 
>I repeat - with the full respect to the designer of the SID chip, it's pointless to 
>hunter for the stupid chip. Build your own better minisynth.
>
>mb

All very true, but, I sometimes like a bit of crap sound, and so do the younger
musicians. The FlaySid emu for Atari Falcon sounds better than the C64 chip ever did.
Although I used (years ago) an Arp Axxe and Avatar I also used the SID and the
famous little white Casio 'keyboard'.
I still have a SK-1. Sometimes crap is great!

Guido


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