One aspect of anything dealing with the senses is that there ultimately is no completely objective way to quantify perceptions. What sounds better? It depends on who is listening. It will never be as good to the original sid, it was a special chip in its own rights. Your never best the original ones. Humans are irrational.
But that does not apply to musical instruments, electronic or not. Does blind test confirm that? Or is it just another fallacy of perception caused by having wrong expectations? The same fallacy happens when audiophile believes that power cord for 10k USD improves the sound quality of his amplifier. It has no impact whatsoever, but he still will be hearing the difference, with his wallet….
Technically there WILL be a difference. First you create stress in an audiophile that his existing equipment may be imperfect. He is then unable to relax and enjoy listening, straining his ears in a hyperattentive state to catch the problem. Then you offer a solution a kind of purgative sacrificial ritual where vast sums of cash are offered up to expunge his sins against perfect fidelity, whereupon he may relax and enjoy listening again… For a while… Until slowly creeping anxiety that his system is getting out of date forces him to commune again with the scene….
When it comes to power cords the only important thing is power rating. Everything else is irrelevant…. The SID chip that was released wasnt hte SID chip yannes wanted to release — commodore cheaped out so it has less features that initially intended. Everything in the SID apart from the filter is digital. If you playback a SID file with a player that supports the reSID engine I recommend jsidplay you can not tell the difference between the emulation and the real hardware.
The filter emulation is unbelievably accurate thanks to analysis by a few people of photographs of the SID die, and the digital implementation, complete with flaws, is absolutely identical.
The flaws are very well known by now and can be recreated. The working frequency range of the filter can be shifted higher or lower by changing the capacitor value. For instance, the uses pF pico farad capacitors as stock. If you change them to, let's say, pF ones, the filter cutoff will happen at slightly lower audio frequencies.
For listening SID tunes on the C64, this value should not be changed, because you will not hear the tune as the composer has intended. TNT Mr. The other extreme would change from pF to pF. If you start changing capacitors and want to do it without trial and error, use ones with tighter tolerance. I just wondered whether my old caps will have dried out a bit and new caps would make my c64 sound like it did when it was new. Tip: Get C64 Forever for super-comfy C64 emulation with pre-installed games, demos and other goodies!
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Back to top. Posted: Thu Jul 29, pm Post subject:. Well, there are two versions of the SID chip as far as I know. Is there any way to tell what sid chip it is in the early C64C's? Open the case and take a look. There are also some small differences between the chips, because there are various revisions R1, R2, R3 and R4 , where the most important differences appears on the use of filters.
One with s and one with r4ar's. Both sound amazing. Highly recommended. Go old school and get a tracker going on a C64 or so.
Latency was allover the place not constant , the VST would crash everytime and offcourse Cubase would crash aswell and it would overheat to the point of crashing or the USB cable falling out. I just bought a DCM8. Just waiting for it to get here. Midibox all the way. True stereo. Did I mention true stereo? That's one SID per ear per voice. Sounds stupidly big as a poly synth.
Almost OTT. I like MSSIAH too, I have the cartridge connected to a C64 with SID and the sound is wonderful but there's a problem with the envelopes not triggering correctly when for example, fast arpeggios are played I love my SammichSID, better order yours now cos they're almost out of production!
It can do loads of typical 8bit sounds and more "traditional" synth sounds. Not too hard to assemble but it has a lot more components than a Shruthi-1 for example.
May have to make a Sammich someday.
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