![]() Most likely because the filter in the 6581 chip in your C64 breadbin or early C64C long motherboard was overfiltered or – a less likely – underfiltered. Why doesn’t tune X sound 100% like I remember it on my own C64? There is nothing wrong with emulation per se – in fact without the opportunity to easily test songs and curate playlists in SIDPLAY there would not be an Ultimate SID Collection. It is also tricky to emulate the unpredictable distortion characteristics of the field effect transistor. ![]() It is difficult to emulate the analog filter sound. However, the SID is a mixed-signal circuit, i.e. SOASC is now discontinued, but remains as a historical archive.Įmulation player and filter programmers such as Simon White, Dag Lem, Antti Lankila, and Andreas Varga have done an amazing job in recreating the unique sound of the SID chip on modern computers. Please visit the inspiring SOASC project if you are interested in a non-curated, automatically recorded collection with a focus on quantity. This means personal taste and nostalgia play a role, too. The USC aims to be a balanced, representative collection with something for everyone, but it is also a curated collection. Why is my favorite tune X by my favorite composer Y not in the collection? Some of the most recognizable tunes are often missing from so-called “Best of SID” lists because they only focus on games. Bruce Lee and Spy vs Spy, respectively.Īnd perhaps most importantly: Demo tunes make up 25% of the USC. The USC also contains historically important tunes or purely melodically interesting ones, although they might not be of high production quality, e.g. Making it into the unofficial top 100 is a combination of a tune being catchy and original, well produced, or an above average tune or a (partial) cover version catapulted to fame via the game it was attached to. The USC contains many of the tunes from the top 100, as often voted by the C64 community. What were the criteria for making it into the USC? Many tunes of high production quality are still being produced today, and a dozen from the late 1990s and 2000s were included in the USC for their technical and/or melodic qualities, e.g. The golden age of C64 music began in the mid 1980s and ended in the mid 1990s, which is why the USC is focused on this time period. Why are most of the tunes from 1984 to 1996? The process each tune went through is described in details in the “Practical Process” section further up on the website. This set a limit on how many tunes I could include, although the 256 tunes do add up to 15 hours of music in total. This is mainly due to the analog filter, so only real C64s with real SID chips would satisfy my quest.Įach tune went through a series of manual recording and processing steps that took considerable time, but resulted in higher fidelity than an automated process. Many tunes had their particular C64/SID combo approved by the original composer.Ī real C64 sounds more gritty and perhaps slightly warmer than emulators. The USC is a curated collection that uses a handpicked C64 and SID chip for each tune or composer in order to focus on musicality and fidelity. 250, comes from the number of steps in an 8 bit process (2 to the power of 8 = 256), the C64 being an 8 bit computer. Dutch Breeze/RoboCop 3 (Lagerfeldt’s Progressive Uplift Remix). ![]() I also had the privilege of working on a range of other retro related projects, such as Instant Remedy’s Amiga music re-make album “Insert Disk 2”, as well as hobby remixing C64 tunes on RKO myself, e.g. The project was produced with great attention to detail, and proved to me how big the fanbase is for retro computer music. In 2013 I was hired by producer Thomas Böcker of Merregnon Studios and producer Jan Zottmann to record and re-master the original Commodore Amiga, Super Nintendo, and Mega Drive music for the Turrican soundtrack anthology by Chris Hülsbeck. Holger Lagerfeldt and Chris Hülsbeck in Leipzig, Germany, 2005
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |