C64 Walkabout Podcast #9 - Pure SID Tunes
Welcome again to the C64 Walkabout podcast! This time I'm making it all about the SIDs. That is, music composed on the Commodore 64 computer in the .sid format available on the HVSC and played using an application called XM Play with the SID plugin and some added reverb.
The songs include a mix of stand alone tunes and SID tracks from games. I tried to break up the feel between songs to add variety. I've been listening to the HVSC quite a bit recently and the songs on this podcast are just a few I've added to my playlist.
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Played: 1722 | Download | Duration: 00:27:37
Tracks:
Winter Holiday - Matthias Hartung
Crystal Cave - Magic Disk 64/CP-Verlag
Angels for Wolfen - Alain Hertenstein (Iron Cat)
Dark Space - Ari Yliaho (Agemixer)
Super Huey - Paul Norman
Avengers - Alain Hertenstein (Iron Cat)
Kangarudy (tracks 2,3) - Albin Oswald
Temple of Apshai Trilogy (tracks 1,2) - Epyx
Time Puzzle - Ralf Kober
Karateka (1,2,13) - Francis Mechner
Dawn of Time - Siegfried Rudzynski (Crome)
Tass Times in Tonetown (track 9) - Dave Warhol & Russell Lieblich
Easy - Bekir Ogurlu (Slowhand)
Sword of Honour (track 2) - John Carehag
Categories: podcasts,SID Sound
Tags: commodore podcast music 64 retro sid
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A great site and project indeed, I've pulled some SIDs from his database. Unfortunately several of them get cut off early, or at least they used to back when I was collecting MP3's from it. Maybe it's more of a problem with the multi-track game SIDs. I could probably put the reverb on in Audacity as well, but it's not as slick as XMPlay.
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I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post
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This is a great site and thanks for the post. I have never heard a lot of these. Am wondering if you can share more about the process you use - more about using XM Play and in particular the SID plugin - how does that work?
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