KVR Audio

Mr Smartypants · Post by **Mr Smartypants** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:01 am

saulc12 wrote:
And as for softsynth options, how about retro-gs01, it is cheaper and easier to use than quadrasid and is still very SID like and very powerful.

http://www.simple-media.co.uk/music/vsti/vsti.htm

I've just had a listen to the retro-gs01 demos and they sound just like the real thing! Took me back to 83 ! The GUI looks real cute too. For the money you're asking I gotta get me one and for the price of a pint the gs-02 drum machine too. (I liked the remix of Mr Do's Castle by the way.)

odo · Post by **odo** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:44 pm

all you need is 64hdd and a $15 dollar cable and you run programs off your pc's hardware directly into the commodore. You can hack a midi cable to get audio ins and outs for the sid. Shouldnt caost you more than 16 dollars for a working sid solution using the following:

prophet64
64hdd
the x-cable

cool

Dogboy73 · Post by **Dogboy73** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:31 pm

Mr Smartypants wrote:
saulc12 wrote:
And as for softsynth options, how about retro-gs01, it is cheaper and easier to use than quadrasid and is still very SID like and very powerful.

http://www.simple-media.co.uk/music/vsti/vsti.htm
I've just had a listen to the retro-gs01 demos and they sound just like the real thing! Took me back to 83 ! The GUI looks real cute too. For the money you're asking I gotta get me one and for the price of a pint the gs-02 drum machine too. (I liked the remix of Mr Do's Castle by the way.)

Seconded! I'm buying this for sure

I've been looking for a good C64 style soft synth as I love the SID sound I trying to use my original C64 is not very practical & usually requires sampling. QuadraSID never really floated my boat & everything else I've seen hasn't really been up to much. This sounds authentic, Looks straightforward to use & as a bonus the GUI is nice as well. SOLD!

kencanvey · Post by **kencanvey** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:07 pm

Try looking here,

http://www.lemon64.com/index.php?mainur ... re%3Dsound

I used to use Electrosound 64, to interface with the sid chip, I remember getting a fantastic thunder sound :O) ahhhh the good old days ;O).

Ken

Dogboy73 · Post by **Dogboy73** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:23 pm

kencanvey wrote:I used to use Electrosound 64, to interface with the sid chip, I remember getting a fantastic thunder sound :O) ahhhh the good old days ;O).

Electrosound 64 was great. My first soft synth when I was about 12

I was using it not so long ago to gathr some samples. I dug out my old C64 & copy of Electrsound but the C64 had a problem where I just got a humming noise instead of sound. Found a replacement C64 on e-bay which I won for £8! Good 1.

I'm definitely going to give that Retro-GS01 a go though. sounds cool & only £12 including the Retro-GS02 drum m/c. Sweet.

Dogboy73 · Post by **Dogboy73** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:26 pm

dbl post

kaden · Post by **kaden** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:32 am

For what it's worth, there's a Moog 'song producer' midi interface for the C-64 currently up on EBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 06933&rd=1

K

Dogboy73 · Post by **Dogboy73** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:25 pm

Bought Retro GS01 & GS02 last night. Definitely one for the C64/SID fans. Some of the patches that come with the GS01 sound very authentic & it seems to have plenty of scope for all kinds of interesting sounds all with that SID like quality

The GS02 was a good adition as well espially costs only £2 if you buy both VSTi's together. Well worth £12

saulc12 · Post by **saulc12** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:27 pm

Dogboy73 wrote:Bought Retro GS01 & GS02 last night. Definitely one for the C64/SID fans. Some of the patches that come with the GS01 sound very authentic & it seems to have plenty of scope for all kinds of interesting sounds all with that SID like quality The GS02 was a good adition as well espially costs only £2 if you buy both VSTi's together. Well worth £12

Glad you like it and hope you have plenty of fun and use out of them both. Thanks

Using a Commodore 64