[Coco] C64 converted into low operating keys

[Bill Pierce]

Thanks Ciaran, I knew of Synther7, but not CocoSid3. I am checking into it now. I am interested in anything coco music oriented. The Coco never had an actual sound chip like many of the 8-bit systems, but it had one hell of a processor and decent memory (for it's time) and could generate most any sound via software. The only limitation, for the most part, was that you couldn't do much of anything else while producing the sound. Sock Master got around this in CocoTracker (I think) by using the programmable interrupts in the Coco3 and creating interrupts to run the sound in the background. I was in contact with Sock a while back and he was going to share the code for  CocoTracker and I was going to write an editer to make it a "True" Tracker, but he seemed to disappear on me.

Bill P

Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
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Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Sep 19, 2012 2:49 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] C64 converted into low operating keys


Bill Pierce wrote:
> 
> Actually, given the right software, the Coco can produce quite a few
> interesting and very musical sounds. [...]
> 
> There's been tons of software for synthesis on the Coco. Two that I know of
> are in Rainbow mag. Then you have Sountrax, Maxsound, Studio Works, all of
> which use sampled waveforms to produce music. [...]
> 
> Programs like Musica, Lyra (TV Play), Bells & Whistles 2, Composer, Music++,
> all use wavetable sound synthesis. [...]

Just to pad out the list, there's also Synther 7 (which I don't *think*
was Dragon-only) and Rem's CoCoSID - for which source is available if
you want to hack on it[0]:

https://sites.google.com/site/rveilleux/coco3home/rems-cocosid3

So you can indeed get some nice noises.  Although in this case Jeri
only used the sound chip from the original C64 guts - our "sound chip"
is pretty much just a bunch of resistors!

..ciaran

[0] And I did want to hack on it, so:
    http://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/demo/#nyan

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