{"id":410,"date":"2013-06-09T20:27:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T01:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danesi3d.com\/scottdanesi.com\/?page_id=410"},"modified":"2020-02-14T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:02:15","slug":"midibox-sid-synthesizer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/?page_id=410","title":{"rendered":"MidiBox SID Synthesizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSCN0704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSCN0704-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0704\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After hearing many praises about the Commodore 64 SID Synthesizers, I thought I would build one for myself. I decided to build it in a compact 1U rackmount case.\u00a0 This project was built in 2006 and is still in my rack and working to this day!<\/p>\n<h3>MIDIBox Technical Description: (from ucapps.de)<\/h3>\n<p>MIDIbox SID is a non-commercial &amp; &#8220;DIY-only&#8221; project. Beside of the common SID functions (three oscillators, triangle\/saw\/pulse\/noise and mixed waveforms, independent envelope generators for the amplitudes, sync &amp; ring modulation, 12db multistate low\/band\/highpass\/notch filter) it features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 additional envelopes with optional non-linear curve which can be assigned to Pitch, Pulsewidth and Filters<\/li>\n<li>6 additional LFO&#8217;s with different waveforms which can be assigned to Pitch, Pulsewidth and Filters<\/li>\n<li>Fine Tuning<\/li>\n<li>Pitch Bender<\/li>\n<li>Portamento\/Glide function<\/li>\n<li>Delays<\/li>\n<li>optional Oscillator Synchronization<\/li>\n<li>Arpeggiator (a SID *must* have an arpeggiator \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>Poly, Mono and Legato Mode<\/li>\n<li>separate keyboard zones for each voice (key splitting) allows to play voices separately<\/li>\n<li>Free controller assignments to Modulation Wheel, Velocity and Aftertouch<\/li>\n<li>wave and CC sequences which allow more percussive sounds (Wavetables)<\/li>\n<li>the wavetable sequencer can be combined with the arpeggiator in order to realize complex textures<\/li>\n<li>LFOs, Envelopes, Wavetables, Arpeggios optionally syncable via external MIDI clock<\/li>\n<li>LFOs can be combined for Sample&amp;Hold effect<\/li>\n<li>up to 6 CV ins with 8 bit resolution which are forwarded to the LFOs (6th waveform) and can control the OSC frequency, pulsewidth and filter<\/li>\n<li>up to 8 CV outs with 12 bit resolution &#8211; MBHP_AOUT_LC and MBHP_AOUT are supported<\/li>\n<li>OS independent SysEx editor based on JSynthLib<\/li>\n<li>BankStick support (128 sound patches per stick, up to 8 can be connected)<\/li>\n<li>Bassline (303) Mode<\/li>\n<li>optional filter CutOff frequency interpolation<\/li>\n<li>optional &#8220;Constant Time Slide&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>can be used as .sid file player<\/li>\n<li>optional minimal control unit<\/li>\n<li>the possibility to control up to 4 SIDs<\/li>\n<li>a complete control surface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing many praises about the Commodore 64 SID Synthesizers, I thought I would build one for myself. I decided to build it in a compact 1U rackmount case.\u00a0 This project was built in 2006 and is still in my rack and working to this day! MIDIBox Technical Description: (from ucapps.de) MIDIbox SID is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-410","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/410\/revisions\/3081"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottdanesi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}