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While 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 player
by adunk 5y ago
While 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.