Elektron Musical Instruments

On Mon, 13 May 2002, nuotto wrote:

> Does anybody here know what kind of a sound chip (if not integrated) 
> was in the Nintendo NES? How is it compared to a SID? I understand, 
> that the NES and the c64 had some common chips inside them (not sure, 
> though)... How cool would an Elektron NES-station be...? ;)
> 
The NES has a very simple programmable sound generator (PSG), which can
play 2 square wave channels, one triangle channel, one noise channel, and
one PCM sample channel. No envelopes, no filters, no hard sync, afaik.
Compared to the SID, it sounds very poor.

Cheers,
Andreas