Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
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Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
This is just a musing, really more of a hypothetical "what if?" situation, but would it be possible to create a musical keyboard that uses the VIC (or SID chip) as its synthesizer? I know this has been done by Yamaha with their YM3812 and YM2413 chips, which have been used in various sound cards as well as musical keyboards.
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Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
Well you could link any midi keyboard to a sidstsation. Never heard of any integrated directly tho. Vic chip.is even less likely as it doesn't sound good enough for a keyboard if we are being honest.
Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
sure it can be done, why not.... you'll need a small microcontroller, a bit of glue logic, and of course a VIC chip
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Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
It has already been done by V1and3, the founder of this company: http://www.plogue.com/Gorf wrote:This is just a musing, really more of a hypothetical "what if?" situation, but would it be possible to create a musical keyboard that uses the VIC (or VIC-II chip) as its synthesizer? I know this has been done by Yamaha with their YM3812 and YM2413 chips, which have been used in various sound cards as well as musical keyboards.
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BTW, the VIC-II is a video only IC. I don't see how you could use it as a synthesizer. The MIDIBox uses the C64 SID.
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Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
Yes, it would be more of a novelty most likely. The sidstation looks to be quite an interesting concept.beamrider wrote:Well you could link any midi keyboard to a sidstsation. Never heard of any integrated directly tho. Vic chip.is even less likely as it doesn't sound good enough for a keyboard if we are being honest.
Very truegroepaz wrote:sure it can be done, why not.... you'll need a small microcontroller, a bit of glue logic, and of course a VIC chip
I'll have to check out that website.eslapion wrote:It has already been done by V1and3, the founder of this company: http://www.plogue.com/Gorf wrote:This is just a musing, really more of a hypothetical "what if?" situation, but would it be possible to create a musical keyboard that uses the VIC (or VIC-II chip) as its synthesizer? I know this has been done by Yamaha with their YM3812 and YM2413 chips, which have been used in various sound cards as well as musical keyboards.
Thanks!
BTW, the VIC-II is a video only IC. I don't see how you could use it as a synthesizer. The MIDIBox uses the C64 SID.
Ah, yes, the SID chip, that is what I meant. Not sure why I typed VIC-II, will fix it in my original post so as not to cause confusion.
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Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
I've thought about it myself but I feel like I would be wasting the vic chips capabilities. You could use it's graphics controls for the keyboard display but you still wouldn't be using much.
The sid makes good sense, it's strictly and audio chip.
Personally I enjoy playing music strait on my vics keys. Got a C64 keyboard overlay to use on my vic a year ago to play around with but I found that I just enjoy playing those good old pet keys.
The sid makes good sense, it's strictly and audio chip.
Personally I enjoy playing music strait on my vics keys. Got a C64 keyboard overlay to use on my vic a year ago to play around with but I found that I just enjoy playing those good old pet keys.
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Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
That is very true. Given the VIC chip is not strictly a sound chip, it would be a waste of its abilities to limit it to a sound only purpose. With that thinking, the SID would make more sense.R'zo wrote:I've thought about it myself but I feel like I would be wasting the vic chips capabilities. You could use it's graphics controls for the keyboard display but you still wouldn't be using much.
The sid makes good sense, it's strictly and audio chip.
Personally I enjoy playing music strait on my vics keys. Got a C64 keyboard overlay to use on my vic a year ago to play around with but I found that I just enjoy playing those good old pet keys.
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Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
You already have a 6502 microcontroller and glue logic inside your VIC 20groepaz wrote:sure it can be done, why not.... you'll need a small microcontroller, a bit of glue logic, and of course a VIC chip
Just add MIDI with one of these: http://store.go4retro.com/vic-20-midi-cartridge/
Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
that'd be the preferred solution - obviously
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Re: Musical Keyboard that Uses the VIC Chip?
Very true, that is always a viable solution
Or - bad VIC-20 pun - it is a VIAble solution.
Or - bad VIC-20 pun - it is a VIAble solution.
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