Re: TI-H: MIDI


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Re: TI-H: MIDI




But not as good as a CD player.  Still, do they sell SID chips seperatly?
Or would everyone have to buy a C64 and rip it out?

>I was thinking of using the EIIs 8bit port to is potential.  512k of memory
>and 8bit SID sound...  I know a site where they have hundreds of SID files
>extracted from games and programs, so we could be DJs at school dances,
>(and be kicked out once we played the first note...  :)  )  Actually the
>SID sound is pretty good...
>
>Grant
>
>>Yeah?!  Do they sell them seperatly?  How exactly would this work?  Grant
>>seems to like BASIC send and recieve commands.  What if you sent the
entire
>>song to an external AVR that told the SID (or maybe some other, better
>>sounding MIDI device) what to play.
>>>Where do you get a SID chip or application information?
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>>>>Yeah.. I used to do sound programming on the C-64, which I believe is
the
>>same
>>>>chip..  (might be a little earlier version.) anyway.. you just needed to
>>tell
>>>>what waveform it was then put in the note values..  it did have pretty
>>nice
>>>>sound..  I gotta admit it would rock on a TI :)
>>>>
>>>>Pellaeon
>>>>gramps@wf.net
>>>>
>>>>> >waveform generator, but I doubt it. Personaly, I'd use the SID chip
>>from
>>>>> >the commodore 128. It had 3 chanels, 4 waveforms (sine, square,
>>>>> >triangle, and noise), and it has 4 bit audio amplitude control
(volume
>>>>> >from 0 to 15), and the wave form is 12 BITS!!!. That's high quality.
>>You
>>>>> >don't need much to control it Atack, sustain, reverb, decay,
waveform,
>>>>> >pitch, and volume level. The SID chip can emulate a Piano and play a
>>not
>>>>> >with a few commands!!! I've set it up to play music before with piano
>>>>> >carring the melody, harpsichord on harmony, and noise to simulate
>>drums!
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