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- Short: Info about new SID-card for the parport
- Author: pipe@algonet.se
- Uploader: pipe@algonet.se
- Type: docs/anno
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- This is information about a new audiocard for the Amiga.
- Read all about it at www.algonet.se/~pipe/
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- The ParSID is a piece of hardware designed to hook up to the
- parallell port of a computer.
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- It allows you to connect up to 8 SID-Chip to your computer,
- and to access them in a very easy and convenient way.
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- The SID is an old chip designed by Bob Yannes back at the early 80'ies,
- to produce the sound in microcomputers like the famous Commodore 64.
- Because of the many many great composers that where hired to compose
- songs for the games on that particular computer, the capabilities of
- the SID were quickly spread among "normal" people, who came to remember
- the games for their music, and not for the actual gameplay.
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- The SID is capable of doing alot of things that todays "Digital Analog"
- synthesizers like the JP-8000 brag about, for example:
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- * 3 independent oscillators with waveforms such as:
- · Sawtooth
- · Triangle
- · Pulse/Square
- · Noise
- * Hardsync oscillators
- * "Ringmodulation"
- * 12 dB/Octave rolloff filters:
- · Lowpass
- · Bandpass
- · Highpass
- * And alot more...
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- The main reason for the game music to sound "computermade", is that
- the composer only have ONE single SID to compose on. This forces him
- to cheat alot, and to only use the filter on one oscillator for example.
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- How do you make a 4-note chord with only 3 oscillators? Together with
- a bassline and some drums? Not to forget the lead..
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- With 8 SID's it's a whole different thing! Now you suddenly have
- 24(!) oscillators, 8 filters, and no additional noise except from
- the SID itself!
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- Add a comprehensive composing tool and you have a pretty darn good
- sounding synthesizer!
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- There will also be a replacement for playsid.library that will support
- the card, so you can listen to SID-songs for real on the Amiga using
- your favourite player like HippoPlayer!
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- * Read all about it at "www.algonet.se/~pipe/"! *
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- / Anders Andersson
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