[sdiy] New DIY synth has born

Roy J. Tellason rtellason at blazenet.net
Thu Feb 17 00:08:01 CET 2005


On Wednesday 16 February 2005 05:03 pm, Rainer Buchty wrote:

> There was a nice synthesis engine in the German 64'er Magazine, the
> Modulator (introduced 4/85, IIRC, with full source in 10/85). That thing
> offered 8 really awesome LFOs, a software ADSR-type EG (with switchable
> polarity) and a patch matrix, so that it was not only possible to route
> LFOs and EG to SID resources but also modulate the LFOs frequency *and*
> pulse width (if square wave was selected for an LFO).
>
> And it still fit into the IRQ routine (50Hz interrupt) so that it
> virtually ran in the background and didn't interfere with the BASIC
> interpreter.
>
> Based on that software, you'd probably need at least one 6502 per
> hardware voice.

Hm.  Got a pile of 'em here and was wondering what to do with them...  :-)

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