Members techristian Posted December 5, 2006 Members Share Posted December 5, 2006 I was sent this interesting article. As some of you already know, In 1985, I designed an interface and software to connect the C64 to the Mattel Intellivision piano keyboard with a few other bells and whistles. Check out the article.http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/e...s.asp?id=41320 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted December 5, 2006 Members Share Posted December 5, 2006 I remember, in the early '80s, connecting my VIC-20 up to a bunch of circuit cards that drove solenoids to control the furnace vent dampers on my first house.... It was mostly an experiment, and it ended up eventually blowing up the VIC chip (I neglected to include opto-isolators to protect against voltage spikes from the inductive loads). But it was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kurfu Posted December 5, 2006 Members Share Posted December 5, 2006 I had hooked up a magnetic sensor to my bedroom door and had my C-64 say "Hey close the door" or something equally stupid... It was fun playing around with that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tradivoro1 Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 I still have my C64... In great condition... Many happy memories with that little machine, in a simpler era... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted December 6, 2006 Author Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 I have a C128 now but i run it in C64 mode most of the time. The last piece of software I was working on was a PITCH to MIDI converter for the C64. It worked good only with perfect pitch instruments such as a flute but was sensitive to background noise. I coudn't sing close enough to perfect pitch and it would usually slew back and forth betrween 2 semitones. I was going to burn the software to eprom and make it a dedicated pitch tracker. I wouldn't even need a monitor. The software would boot up from the start and hitting the number keys would select the midi channel and octave range. Some day I may port it over to a 386 based PC to play with. (If I can dig up the source code) Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 Lo and behold The New Commodore Powered by an AMD 64 FX60 An old story here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted December 6, 2006 Members Share Posted December 6, 2006 Oh, I forgot to mention that I still have a working C-64 that I used to use with Dr. T's KCS Sequencer, and still used it up until about 1998 with my old Roland VS. I wish they'd integrate that program as a midi plugin or some such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators MrKnobs Posted December 7, 2006 Moderators Share Posted December 7, 2006 Originally posted by techristian I was sent this interesting article. As some of you already know, In 1985, I designed an interface and software to connect the C64 to the Mattel Intellivision piano keyboard with a few other bells and whistles.Check out the article.http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/e...s.asp?id=41320 Connecting a C64 to the Internet? Child's play! I'm using something a little more sexy than that to post right now! Terry D.P.S. Ted, did you once write for Compute or Pet Gazette magazines? I've been thinking I knew you from somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jackpine Posted December 7, 2006 Members Share Posted December 7, 2006 I still have my SX-64. The portable unit with the 5 inch screen. Used with a Doctor T midi interface this was my power house midi studio in the early 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rabid Posted December 7, 2006 Members Share Posted December 7, 2006 About this time last year I relented to lack of space and sent my C64 and two Amiga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted December 6, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 6, 2012 Here is the latest. It is still a work in progress , but MIDI is coming slowly....also some machine language inner working revealed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CTStump Posted December 7, 2012 Members Share Posted December 7, 2012 If you have Kontakt you can use this familiar baby:http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012...e-sample-pack/These are ruff samples, exactly what's needed for Low Tech effienados.edit: I just tested these on the free Kontakt 5 player and they work, if you have any version lower you can load the samples but not the neat presets (sans the all important photo of the C 64) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted December 7, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 7, 2012 Hopefully I'll get my new SD card reader (for the C64) working tomorrow, so I can get this project finished 5X faster ! Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Folder Posted December 7, 2012 Members Share Posted December 7, 2012 About thirty years ago my brother had a VIC-20, Atari 400 and a Radio Shack TRS-80 color Computer. I didn't know anything about computers but one of the cartridges that came with the TRS-80 was a music sequencing program. This was before MIDI and I don't think I even knew what music sequencing was but I remember spending a whole day one weekend painstakingly programing one of my songs into it. You had to type the notes in on the QWERTY keyboard and it only allowed for two notes, one on the bass clef and one on the treble clef so I just programed a bass line and a melody.I'm not sure how the sounds were generated but I remember they sounded kind of like early computer sine waves or something. I played the song back a few times but as I didn't know anything about computers I'm not sure if I was aware that you could save your programs. I remember later seeing my brother save programs to a cassette deck but I never programed another song until almost ten years later when I started using MIDI keyboard workstations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted December 7, 2012 Members Share Posted December 7, 2012 Originally Posted by CTStump If you have Kontakt you can use this familiar baby:http://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012...e-sample-pack/These are ruff samples, exactly what's needed for Low Tech effienados. How they hell did you find out about that?!? Downloading now!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CTStump Posted December 7, 2012 Members Share Posted December 7, 2012 Originally Posted by Anderton How they hell did you find out about that?!? Downloading now!! In my all encompassing search for thing's lofi I stumbled across this gem.(psssst, I really just saw this on the news page at KVR..... don't tell anybody). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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