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The soundtrack for the C64 game Lazy Jones [1] is a pretty good demo for the legendary SID sound chip. When I experienced it, my computer has a bleepy PC speake
by AndrewOMartin 5y ago
The soundtrack for the C64 game Lazy Jones [1] is a pretty good demo for the legendary SID sound chip. When I experienced it, my computer has a bleepy PC speaker, and my cousin's C64 had a much more "adult" sound.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxlYYA8yrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxlYYA8yrg
- adunk 5y agoWhile the Lazy Jones soundtrack is a pretty good demonstration of how early SID music sounded like, it does not even come close to what more recent music players are able to produce - on the same hardware. If you want to be blown away by the sounds the SID chip can produce, I would recommend some of LMan's work. This is one impressive tune: https://youtu.be/h0qMNfpiLmE https://youtu.be/h0qMNfpiLmE And this is done with the hardware that Bob Yannes designed for the Commodore 64, in his early 20s.
- alberto7 5y agoWow, that's impressive. The tones are remarkably clear, I wouldn't have guessed it was a Sid (apart from the 3 voices) Edit: on second listen, it sounds like it has a bit of reverb applied? I wonder if it was recorded from real hardware.
- chillingeffect 5y agoi don't hear the reverb, but...it helps to remember the SID ADSR envelopes are a mix of linear and exponential...can't remember which is which. i believe AD are linear and rel is exp? but since reverb decay is more linear than exp, a linear env can sound a bit like 'verb. one thing im noticing in this is skipped ticks in the player... mysterious brief random pauses in the sequencer, ouch, heh.
- bostik 5y agoGoing off on a tangent, if you liked that clip, I can only recommend to check up LMan's impressive remixes at RKO: https://remix.kwed.org/search/lman https://remix.kwed.org/search/lman Start with Turrican I end titles and go from there.