Making music w/Paula

[TheGoose]

Nice toons there! The sounds match really well to an oldie black and white cartoon like that.

How do you like the HardSID? Which one did you get ?

[TheGoose]

Ok, so it does more than just play back SID tunes, their website does not do a good job explaining it to musician types.

I can use it as a sound source, use it with a MIDI ?

I am trying to finish up my mad scientist C64 currently. Which is partly fun and a mess, true. If it all goes to flames, maybe I can put my chips into one of these.

[TheGoose]

Getting M64 from the internet to the SX64 was a serious science project... ended up somehow sending the program from my mac using a MIDI Sysex dump.

HFS! - We should send you an award / trophy for that.:hammer:


 Thanks for the info.

[TheGoose]

I thought protracker/noisetracker/octamed would allow you to trigger samples via midi?

I also understood Paula was *only* a sample based synth and could not synthesise sounds itself?   You always had to load a basic waveform 'sample'.

Paula, yeah it doesn't oscillators like a analog SID chip.

OSS- has a pretty cool synth instrument/tool, I like it. But does not sound anything like a SID to me.

OSS- Yes you could put it into slave mode MIDI and just load up instruments and use it as a sound source.

Idea! - use modern Renoise and MIDI it to Amiga OSS (slave mode), now you got cool tracker plus old Paula sounds...I need to try that out...

[TheGoose]

Oh this is shocking:

Reniose FAIL

"While it is possible to use the computer keyboard to enter notes in Renoise, it is not velocity sensitive and can only map two and half octaves at once. "

OSS Win - reads all kinds of touch sensitive data and key-ups. I love this feature for keying in piano parts.

Sorry, Off subject.