Elektron Musical Instruments

Hello SIDstation community!

As we're all aware, the SID chip has many quirks and 'bugs' which help give
it a unique sound. They also make it very un-predictable (do you know of any
other synth that never plays a sequence the same??) ..

I do a bit of experimental sound making here and there, producing
sound-scapes and ambient sound.

So i've found a fantastic way of using this 'unwanted' ambience -- using the
noise leaking from the SID chip to make sounds like no other synth (what
other synth leaks ambience? :) ). Paricularly using tables. When the SID is
left (without a noise gate!) to make ambient noise with tables, some amazing
soundscapes can be made.

Chuck it through a nice analogue (or filtered) delay .. and assign some
controllers to things like pitch and the filter. Some truly amazing textures
can be found, and it's the closest thing you'll get to being inside a SID
chip!

Anyhow, i have a streaming (flash4) example on www.noisemusic.org (the
sounds on the front page are all sidstation and effects). So if you have
want to, check it out.

Andrew