Commodore/Amiga instruments?

[ognix]

That's a great idea!!! (BTW, where's the image? it disappeared)
I wish I would created it!

On the Amiga side, there are not many software sound synthesizers AFAIK: I remember the partner of Aural Illusion (a sample editor with a synth brother).
Any other clues?
Maybe the Amiga, due to its sampling abilities, did not develop many sound synthesis programs.

[tone007]

The server that image is stored on seems to be going down alot lately.  I'll link to it somewhere else.

[Arkhan]

The server that image is stored on seems to be going down alot lately.  I'll link to it somewhere else.

the awesomeness of the photo is whats breaking the server.


yknow the lack of a good standalone synthprogram for the amiga clearly means you need to bust out the coding skills and diddle one up!

[mr_a500]

Apparently this idea is pretty old. Check out this advertisement I found in the September 1980 issue of Byte Magazine:



I somehow doubt the claim that "Girls will climb over each other to kiss your feet."

[AmigaHeretic]

Wow!  That thing would be frikin' heavy.  I remember the Apple IIs being made out of some sort of concrete mixture!  


Anyway, I think the A600 would be much more appropriate than an A500/A1200.  Same sound chip either way, but much smaller!

[graffias79]

It is old, but perhaps would be easier to implement because of its small size, but how about Aegis Sonix?  I seem to remember it having a synthesizer section.

[J-Golden]

I know it's not exactly what your looking for, but there is a screen saver program, yes screen saver, that let you do tons of other things.  One of them was mapping sound effects to any/every key on the keyboard.

You could turn off all the other programs, like the screen saver, and it was creadted to be loaded from start up and run in the background.

It was really cool and I wish I could really REALLY remember what it was called....

Trust me, when I do, I'll post...

[tone007]

I've got a couple of Apple IIes here, there's enough room in those to make an actual acoustic guitar.  Good idea for another project!

[amigadave]

Great job on the C64 alteration, are the buttons on the neck of the Ctar functional?  I could not tell if they were from the video due to poor lighting.  I have to show this to my Son who loves Guitar Hero on his X-Box360 (which he told me is dying, or has just died.  Maybe that means that he will get some homework done this year :roflmao:).

[tone007]

The buttons are currently set up for quick instrument changes, though I thought about reassigning them to different notes instead.

[XDelusion]

I know it's not exactly what your looking for, but there is a screen saver program, yes screen saver, that let you do tons of other things.  One of them was mapping sound effects to any/every key on the keyboard.

You could turn off all the other programs, like the screen saver, and it was creadted to be loaded from start up and run in the background.

It was really cool and I wish I could really REALLY remember what it was called....

Trust me, when I do, I'll post...

You ever figure out what that program was called?

[Ral-Clan]

Jeri Ellsworth version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kDhpFaf4EY

[Varthall]

A1200's keyboards have the multiple-keypresses bug (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=71099), so better to use an A500 or A600 which do not have this problem.