Anyone know a good C64 Sid editor?

There are tons of modern tools, but IMO some of the best ones ever were the trackers and editors from Jens Christian Huus of The Vibrants. These guys always had some of the most amazing sounds, and the editors are at least somewhat friendly.

They also made Edlib (FM tracker for MSDOS) that is EXCELLENT for FM tunes. (probably second only to FM Composer)

Another great tool (and it’s not a SID, but makes similar sounds minus the analog filter) is the Glitch Storm from Spherical Sound. It’s cheap, simple, and not only makes great sounds, but rhythmic patterns. I generally run it into my Black Box, sample a few seconds, then chop out single hits. It can do just about anything “Chip” short of multi-operator FM type stuff.

Probably the BEST way though most expensive, is to find a SID Station. :smiley:

Another BEST way :smiley: would be the ReFX QuadraSID VST. It’s a full SID VST, and is SUPER EASY to make sounds on, and then you can just dump the sounds digitally. I don’t think ReFX sells it anymore, but I have a license and don’t use it. I’ll see if I can dig up the info, and an installer for it. I’d be happy to pass it your way since I haven’t touched it in years.

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here´s a very nice community with a bunch of tools für different platforms (and c64):

https://www.micromusic.net/

just log in as a guest and got to “microwarez”!

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I did some of the presets for it, sadly sold it some years ago (as is seems typical for me when prices were at rock bottom :grin: I have a knack for that!)

Very kind of you! If you come across it I’ll be happy to check it out, thank you! No rush though of course :slight_smile:

In the meantime I found this old program which is pretty cool, though sadly and strangely does not use the filter at all! But it is great for those fast modulated arcade type sounds a’la Defender etc

https://archive.org/details/commodore-diskuser-10/page/n34

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