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uCould Sid chart?
We have, all heard the current charts
and whatever you geographical location,
in my opinion most of the music is
dire. If this is due to my age or just
that music has become stale I am
unsure. Apart from the usual remixes of
old classics, and the usual drum n base
remixes, I find little that excites me
or begs me to buy it now.
In my frustration I went back to an MP3
player filled with Sid tunes, I know I
am not alone; I know many Commodore
users have Mp3 players with SID tunes.
I then decided to put the tunes through
a little reverb to fill them out, and
then split the signal to a pseudo
stereo image using external processing
devices the results were great, fat
stereo SID tunes booming down my
headphones.
I listened to something recently on the
radio I forget the name now, but it was
little more than bleeps with some guy
reciting a poem over the top I think
the tune was thou shall kill something
along those lines.
I then went back to my recording and
decided to take a coupe of SID tunes
add a real drum section and a little
reverb and filtering and compression to
add punch, I then utilised a home made
kludge to make the whole sound stereo
and save the file back to my MP3
player. Now I finally have something to
listen to, fat base a heavy drums, SID
purists will now be gasping in horror
but I am on a project so please excuse
me.
I dont want to take 1 SID tune on its
own and say this is the best because I
reworked a couple of tunes and hey they
all sound great to begin with. Someone
is going to get upset here and say the
originals were far better, I agree the
SID sound is good but wanted to appeal
to a more open market. Maybe the
Commodore 64 and sid profile would be
improved if a real tune actually made
its way into the charts.
I am not in the process of ripping
someone off for a copyrighted SID tune
I just wanted to make the point that
with a little work many of these older
and indeed new sounding tunes can be
radio prefect certainly the ones I have
been playing with would easily be
welcomed in the local club. Sadly this
is why I am not offering the files I
worked on for download, because they
were a personal test and I dont want to
be at the end of a copyright war with
some demo coder.
Of course the SID tune would need to be
original so no one would get upset
maybe even donate the money made to
charity as a gesture of good faith from
the community.
I have in the past listened to many SID
tunes on my Hi fi as I am sure most of
us have done, and I thought this would
sound great in a club, So maybe a
challenge here then for someone to take
a SID tune (you own the copyright for
or even better a brand new tune) and
with the minimal amount of External
processing have the tune enter the
charts.
There are various hardware items to use
2 SIDs so Stereo is possible from a
basic machine.
Hasn't it all been done before? Well I
remember a group had so it was claimed
just 2 Commodore Amiga 500s chained
together over the serial port to keep
the timing of the machines, and they
made a Tune using just these machines
as instruments, that managed to get
into the UK top 40 but I cant ever
remember a SID tune entering the Charts
of any country.
Now with things like the Prophet 64 and
Stereo SIDs we could have a worthy
contestant to the Charts.
So there is a challenge for anyone with
the right contacts, have a SID tune
with the minimal amount of external
processing enter the charts, any takers
or would you like to correct me and
name a tune that charted that was
entirely created on the Commodore 64.
Yes we had Zombi nation or whatever
they called themselves taking a riff
from lazy Jones and other people have
samples SID sounds and indeed most of a
SID demo to create a tune but not a
whole; Commodore 64 produced tune
without any external instruments.
If enough of a Buzz was created and the
tune downloaded enough then it would be
possible without the expense of
creating a CD, a few bands have
recently via the web created enough of
a download frenzy that the music
entered the chart before they even
created a CD or even the cover artwork.