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2017-07-28 22:52

Nibelung
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Which tracker?

I'm an old bloke. Part of a local group way back. Used to make stuff on Huelsbeck's Soundmonitor and later the Rockmon.
Then moved on to Amiga and then the ST - attached to a bunch of Synthies.
But now I'm back to the scene and want to do something "Sidish," because that particular sound never left my heart.
The Gretchenfrage is: Which tool? I've loaded up the Soundmonitor and was puzzled how it works. Seems 30 years of
absence has wiped my memory *laughs*
Surely there are better tools? And what about digi-drums? I liked that Rockmon.
Stuff like Goat-Tracker for convenience? Is it true to the sound? Or does it sound different on VICE and a real thing?
(Yeah, I know that every SID sounds a bit different...)

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2017-08-04 10:58

Mr. SID

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 421

Quote: The above mentioned demo crashes on VICE 3.1 with a CPU Jam at
$02AA. Win8.1 x64. 3 times. :(

But I dl'd "Nights falls over Amydala." Yay! Certainly NOT my style, but an interesting sound for sure! But no, Jammer, can't beat the Didi-Drums. Oops! Digi-Drums. And yes, perhaps
my memory is *really* fucked up after 30 years, hearing is believing...perhaps I'll drop the whole topic after I heard the quality of 'em Rockmon-Drums...*grin*

Gimme a couple o' days :p

You probably want to try turning on "True Drive Emulation" in VICE.

2017-08-04 11:34

chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11110

TDE should be enabled by default... perhaps the problem is using x64 instead of x64sc?

2017-08-04 12:44

iAN CooG

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3132

nah, x64 works perfectly with it.

2017-08-05 07:50

FATFrost
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Posts: 211

If you want to make a sid track, every note has to be massaged out of the sid chip... im not good at massage ;/

2017-08-05 19:59

Nibelung
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Yeah, True Drive Emulation is on. And using X64 too. Will try
it on another setup tomorrow. This was on my laptop. *Might*
using a nightly build, not sure about that.

2017-08-05 22:38

Nibelung
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@FASTFrost: What is that mean?
You are not a musician?
Perhaps take a walk to the Coder's Den then?

2017-08-05 23:01

Nibelung
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Well, this is something off Topic now. Looked over the forums but didn't find anything useful anyway:
My PC archive of C64 has grown like a cancer. It's now at 33.6 GB.
Try to maintain and get as much over to the real thing (I'm the one using 5 1/4 floppy disks) and it *grows*...
YAY! IT GROWS! Aaaaarrrrgghhhaaaaaiiiiieeeeee!
Of course not the software. It's scans of Zzap64!, 64'er, Happy Computer, Compute! and the like. Also Boxshots, Manuals.
A whole archive, but WIP.
Anyone else as mad as me?

2017-08-08 17:02

Sixx

Registered: May 2005
Posts: 229

Quoting Nibelung