Apologies for being late on this one. Remember the Prophet64? Well, the cartridge is now available in limitted quantities. 
"Prophet64 is a suite of very user friendly music applications for the Commodore 64 platform. Designed to hook up to modern MIDI equipment with either DIN-sync or third party MIDI interfaces, it makes your old computer become a highly useful music tool.
The software is distributed on a hardware cartridge that plugs right into the back of your C64. No disk or tape loading, just plug and play!
The Cartridge contains the whole suite of applications. You can read more about them in the links on the right side bar.
With an array of music software that mimics modern and classic sequencing devices through versatile user interfaces, Prophet64 opens the door for everyone who wishes to explore the world of the legendary audio circuit (the "SID") in the Commodore computers.
Instead of collecting dust in the closet, you can put your C64 at work right beside the synthesizer rig in your studio today! Add some in-fashion bleeps and blops to your latest track, an extra bass flavor, an additional lead sound or why not an 8-bar break with Rob Hubbard drums?
The possibilities are endless."
Title link takes you there.
I'm sure some people don't mind, but for all the neat features a real SID in a C64 has, it's also really noisy. I had some neat 1980s music apps and a full size keyboard for it, but unless you had it churning away sequences non-stop, which I guess is the point, I had to be messing with noise gates, EQ, etc. in order to record it.
ReplyDeleteI like the SID's noise. I bought two prophet 64's today (with the sid2sid). I got a box of C64's in the basement that need a function in life.
ReplyDeleteToo bad I threw out some c64 mice and drives and stuff a while back. Still have some somewhere tho.
The noise is not a problem. The Prophet 64 has a function to turn off the screen while playing. That reduces the noise significantly!!
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