Moog Song Producer/C64 setups

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#21

The 600 is one of the few Amiga models I’ve never owned (though that day may come). I love these things about it:

  • its compactness (no number pad)
  • it has PCMCIA like A1200 (though it’s slightly buggy sometimes) (a PCMCIA to CF adapter with the appropriate software running on the Amiga side can actually mount a CF card [under 4GB] that can be shared with/used in the Octatrack btw … I wouldn’t do this with your production card though)
  • can fit (solid state) hard drive inside
  • 2 megs chipram, I think
  • expandable
  • ECS mode can use low-end VGA with an adapter (not as nicely as AGA can)

Things to check though:

  • the capacitors may need replacing
  • the OS may be 2.x and may be best to upgrade (unless you can get by with it, which is totally possible/reasonable)

The A600 would be a mean machine using OctaMED SoundStudio — that program is a beast (there are tracker commands that send ARexx commands to other programs running on the Amiga – interprocess communications in a tracker :exploding_head:) . I also like using Sample Wrench (which can also be scripted over ARexx) and … well, tons of other s__t on the Amiga. (Bars & Pipes Professional is an amazing MIDI environment, reminiscent of M4L, but it could take years to master and it’s not without its bugs. Gotta collect all the tools.)

re: C64 – I use my MSSIAH cart quite a bit; especially for the Drummer module. Used Drummer and the Sample player quite a bit on the middle/latter tracks of my jamuary2023 experiments, fed into the AK.

I know @darenager has written a lot about C64 here and elsewhere. I too have had MUSICALC for many many years, with the keyboard attachment. I don’t use it very often; the disk is copy-protected and if it goes bad, it’s impossible to load the program.

I also have (& use & love) a HardSID ISA in a ThinkPad Docking Station but that’s a whole other story.

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#22

the noise can sometimes be worked around. a lot of implementations/users ignore the ‘audio in’ pin on the video cable. if the ‘audio in’ is simply wired to something (so it is properly grounded/closed) then that can eliminate a lot of the noise. at least, that’s my experience on the 6581

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#23

:star_struck:

#24

feature not a bug in my eyes anyway :wink:

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#25

This is (robot reggae) LYFE.

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#26

Whoa, thanks for the link on Kerberos… didn’t know about this one before.

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#27

here you go, 50 seconds of random life affirming noises made by between 1 & 8 SID chips stuck through a random ableton reverb setting.

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#28

LMK if you need some Amiga software on DD floppies to get you started/bootstrapped.

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#29

I love this forum so much. I will pro, thank you! Let me look into what all I’m going to need to get started. This is a passion project.

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#30

Yep. I’m doing this.

This clip was the last straw.

#31

So all I need are eight chips. This is gonna take some time and commitment. I better start fasting.

#32

Kerberos is really great, you can dump roms to it by midi sysex which means you can have a bunch of music programs installed and load them pretty quick from the cart, the midi side works flawlessly in all the stuff I tested it with.

I got mine from here Kerberos MIDI & file transfer interface **preorder**

Also recommend SidFx, it allows 2 Sid chips to be installed and gives a much cleaner (though still characterful) output and can use differential Sid types in each slot or the modern replacements, it has a very good config utility so it can be easily set up for a variety of Sid addresses.

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#33

Yeah, what an awesome program, I don’t feel it ever got the recognition it deserves really. BTW I found a way to “hack” it by using it installed on a SD card (using SD2IEC drive) and setting the SD card switch to lock to prevent it from cocking the disk up.

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#34

I am all of these synths. I am shape-shifter. The C64 thread is a gold mine. Thank you for linkage. I’m gonna get off the internet for some hours now. K. Bye.

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#35

Never had a C64 myself and my closest experience must be with LSDJ and Nanoloop, but I am very fond of chiptune and keygen music.
Give some tracker a shot?

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#36

10 PRINT “Hello Elektronauts”
20 GOTO 10

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#37

I live and breathe chiptunes ! I have been summoned//// lemme catch up I love programming on my c64 !

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#38

Nailed it :sunglasses:

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#39

I own this too :slight_smile: / but I don’t have a second chip yet !