[PD] MOD Trackers (was Pd to CV for a Moog) (OT)

[padawan12]

I tried it Chris, wicked stuff. Oddly I've been talking about old
sound chips quite a bit recently, there seems to be a revival of 
interest. Noah Vawter from MIT gave me an explanatin of why the
Sid was such a superior beast to the AY38610. Were there any other 
notable "synthesiser on a chip" attempts?

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:29:43 +0800
Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:22:02PM +0100, padawan12 wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:08:04 -0500
> > "Kyle Klipowicz" <kyleklip at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > It's pretty awesome that so many of us grew up using MOD trackers as
> > > our first (or early) computer music environments.
> > 
> > Kinda missed out on trackers, somewhere between beeps on the BBC micro
> > or Commodore 64, and my first Atari ST with Cubase. My first ever "computer
> > music" was on a ZX81, which doesn't have a soundcard, but if you put a radio
> > next to it you could hear the programs running off station at 4MHz because
> > the crappy little plastic box had no EMI shielding, so by inserting nops
> > in a loop you could make it play musical sequences ;) 
> 
> [plug]
> If yr interested in that kind of thing you might like to check out my
> commodore64 synthesizer software: http://mccormick.cx/viewcvs/aSid/
> which you can build using the cc65 compiler and put on your commodore 64
> using the MMC64 sd-card-to-c64-cartridge converter (google it).
> Plug in a couple of analogue paddles and you have a moogy synthesizer
> for ten bucks/pounds!
> [/plug]
> 
> Best,
> 
> Chris.
> 
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