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Originally Posted by thedreampolice  "LOL Those things are pre midi"
Actually my first sequencer in the 80s was a c64. They had midi for a long time! |
I was about to say... there were plenty of MIDI interfaces and such for the C64 and they were regularly featured in the C64 magazines. Apparently someone wasn't around in the 80's
The C64 is great. You actually can output some limited samples if you know what you're doing. The "Ghostbusters" videogame for example had some speech output at the beginning. There's no way to use it "as a sampler" however. Such a cool machine honestly. There's actually several revisions of the 6581 chip, and a few other chips that they used in various commodore systems that are also cool.
I happen to still have one sitting on my desk with Prophet 64 running, but I also have some other older sequencer and music software.
I am looking into building an 8x Midibox Sid, which should be freaking sick and huge sounding. I'm not going to likely use the 6581 chips and i'll likely use the 6582 chips as the resonance actually works on those. Might build a super basic 6581 based one just to have "that sound" around.
Really amazing machine. This was the 80's for me.