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irmen / pyc64

Commodore-64 simulator in pure Python
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SID Emulation #3

Closed daitangio closed 3 years ago

daitangio commented 5 years ago

Hi, I like very much pyc64, I has the project I am looking for and I blogged it too https://gioorgi.com/2019/commodore-retro/

I am exploring a way to add a SID-like sound capability to the emulator. There are little python library to emulate the SID, mostly interface some SID players and so on. reSID emulator (writte in C++) is very good but no python interface is out of there. Also it seems a lot CPU hungry.

A nice try should be integrating with the SonicPi which by the way is a way more powerful

https://pypi.org/project/python-sonic/

What do you think? Are you already tried some of this library? Suggestions?

irmen commented 5 years ago

I love the SID ! It is awesome to attempt to integrate it into pyc64 but:

daitangio commented 5 years ago

Yes my goal is to make the SID chip completely optional. I have no luck finding a SonicPi implementation of C/64 SID, I asked to Sam Aaron, so I am still exploring this idea. I'd like to implement a pyc64 to SonicPi gateway, trying to emulate a bit the SID but not with much fidelity (it is not easy to do). I have little sound knowledge, I should study a way more SonicPi before being able to do it.

irmen commented 5 years ago

I've got a Python softsynth project as well that could be integrated to create simple oscillator based sounds.... :thinking:

daitangio commented 5 years ago

Think about it and let me know if it can be integrated, we can set up a "feature" branch and see if it is worth to. SonicPi is very nice because it is very flexible: we can have multiple SIDs, very powerful effect and so on

irmen commented 5 years ago

That SonicPi looks to be quite awesome

daitangio commented 5 years ago

Yes its engine is SuperCollider, a real time music synthetizer. I have already hooked SonicPi using a library called python-sonic you can see my branch "feature/c32-experiment" but it is a very embrional state right now. I'd like to link SID Voice 1 to some Sonic Pi effect and try it out with a demo basic program

irmen commented 3 years ago

Closing this at it seems to be too far-fetched anyway.

cyberic99 commented 3 years ago

maybe this implementation of the SID chip in python could be useful?

https://github.com/Gadgetoid/python-sidchip

(it uses bindings against reSID)

irmen commented 3 years ago

I have no desire to pursue this further, but maybe someone else will, so thanks for that link