27 Dec
2006
27 Dec
'06
8 a.m.
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/ has an easily accessed
collection of almost
every C64 tune ever written, ripped into a convenient .sid format.
You can then play those using a SID emulator that just emulates the
SID, rather than a whole C64. For the mac, there is a neat little app
called Sidplay that is nice to use. At least this way you can easily
preview the tunes before getting a real C64.
I would be happy to leave most of the C64 music selection to the guy
that demos the machine. I think I still have a C64 emulator on this
machine, when I wanted to play Castles of Dr. Creep.
If you can find old issues of a British magazine
called "Electronics
and Music Maker" from the early 80's, they often had profiles of
musicians that used what are now classic computers. My copies are
deep in storage, but I can dig them out if you are interested.
I am more interested in some of the more oddball releases from the
1970s, like Roger Powell's Air Pocket, which credits an Altair system
on the album. By early to mid 1980s, plenty of artists were using
microcomputers for sequencing, so by then, they were a fairly
established studio tool.
You might try to get in touch with someone from the
IEEE Technical
Committee on Computer Generated Music (TCCGM) - the link is too long
to paste here, just google for TCCGM. They have occasional
publications (at least one special issue of the IEEE/CS magazine
"Computer"), a university library might have it.
Yes, I need to look into them, thanks.
There were demos and hacks for the 1541 drive playing
music by
knocking its heads - that might not be too hard to find. I think
something for the Amiga and its drives existed as well.
Very interested in those as well, as I figure doing the same with 14
inch drives is unrealistic.
Amiga 500s should be cheap and easy to get a hold of -
and have a
fairly recognizable lo-fi sound (8bit resolution and variable sampling
freq) C64s are also like sand on the beach...
Yes, and I hope that someone (MARCH?) would want to show off a bit.
On-Air praise and kudos to those that do!
There are various outfits (such as Paia(sp?)) making
midi-to-CV
interfaces - is that cheating? :-)
Sort of...
--
Will