[sdiy] Sid Modular

[MED]

On Sunday 19 October 2003 00:03, John L Marshall wrote:
> Karl,
>
> Why?

I was gonna be flip and say "why not?"
But I decided to be a bit more in depth.
here's some pros and cons of this idea.
Pros:
1) It's a SID chip.
2) SIDs are still (relatively) plentiful and cheap -- if you buy them inside a 
commodore.
3) It's modular.
4) The SID has many interesting sounds.
5) Because you can.
6) Because cloning it would be much more work (there were a *lot* of 
compromises that went into its design, and to recreate the flaws in a 
musically useful way would be a major PITA without direct help from its 
maker)

Cons:
1) It's a SID chip.
2) Locked into the specific sounds the SID provides
3) Still a PITA to build, but less of one.
4) Modularity is a kludge for this chip.
5) No word on what the future will bring in terms of availability -- if people 
still love the SID sound, they could (in the distant future) be as rare as 
sn77647 or whatever they're numbered.
6) you're building off someone's untested design -- and if you're new to 
synths, there could be glaring errors or assumptions made of which you are 
unaware.

I'm out of pros/cons.

-med