Sunday, December 13, 2015
Sanxion - Menu Music (Sergei Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights) - Commodore 64 SID chip in HD
Published on Dec 13, 2015 MrCaliforniaD
"Played on an original Commodore 64c with a 8580 SID chip (R5-3888)
Programmer/Composer: Rob Hubbard
In find this piece of memorabilia very interesting. You can hear that the programmer was a pro in sound synthesis.
Usually, programmers of that era would OVERUSE the pulse width modulation to achieve this classic C64 sound.
In this particular piece, the programmer actually tried to synthesize real instruments sounds and, to my humble opinion, it was a complete success given the limitations of the SID chip at this particular game.
Remember that the SID chip had only 3 voices. So theses voices had to be constantly reprogrammed to give this impression of a full orchestra, alternating from one instrument to the other back and forth."
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