KVR Audio

tk421 · Post by **tk421** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:24 pm

I was not lucky enough to have a Commodore 64 growing up, but I did have one of these. I have considered getting a C64 and trying to turn it into a synth. I saw a picture of an Atari 65XE in Computer Music recently. Anyone know if there are any simple music making solutions for this computer.

This is what I was thinking of getting.
http://www.prophet64.com/

But since I have the Atari already, I was wondering what might be out there.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:45 pm

Ehm... what are you typing on right now? It's got much more & evolved music making potential than the ancient eight-bitter on that picture

Even with something like BUZZ on a 486 you could make more interesting tunes

It's successor, the 16bits 520ST and 1040ST did have midi ports to control REAL synths, spawning the popularity of programs like Steinberg's CuBase.

tk421 · Post by **tk421** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:54 pm

I know, but I a have always liked the C64 sound. I have seen some fun looking projects made from them.

vonRed · Post by **vonRed** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:42 pm

The C64 has a different soundchip though, the C64 had the SID, the Ataris had the POKEY, which is quite different (both are nice).

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:02 pm

I have a couple of C64's, but I'm holding out for the MIDIBox 2.0:
http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid_v2_wishlist.html

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:49 am

Some assorted C64 SID emulations and alikes:
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/92.html
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/311.html
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1224.html
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1551.html
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1615.html
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2406.html

I know, not a real answer to your question... Maybe you can try the SAP Maker on your Atari, found under tools at http://asma.atari.org/

tk421 · Post by **tk421** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:47 pm

I am a big QuadraSID fan, but I am always looking for other 8 bit sounding VSTs.

The MIDIBox link is exactly what I would like to do. But it looks like there are more C64 fans than POKEY.

jackson · Post by **jackson** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:10 pm

Tim Conrardy's the man to ask around here, here's a regular and a total Atari freak. No idea if your particular model can do fun stuff, but here's his website: http://tamw.atari-users.net/

Radek · Post by **Radek** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:38 pm

vonRed wrote:The C64 has a different soundchip though, the C64 had the SID, the Ataris had the POKEY, which is quite different (both are nice).

SID is much more sophisticated than Pokey but I had been liking the sound of the latter better.

There are some Atari demos which are playing 4 channel sample based tunes on 1.7MHz 8bit cpu...

harmony gardens · Post by **harmony gardens** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:47 pm

nice trip down memory lane. My first music computer was an Atari 130 XE running a Hybrid Arts sequencer. I then graduated to an Atari 1040 ST running Hybrid Arts SMPTE Track.

I was just as amazed at what it could do then, as I am today, but I wouldn't want to go back to that...

stoolz · Post by **stoolz** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:10 pm

scrap that, get an atari falcon it has 16but onboard audio, you should able to find plenty of software fot it.