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sidplayfp

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A tiny application that enables you to simulate the famous SIDPLAY and other Commodore 64 chips using this console software solution. #SID emulator  #SID playback  #Sound synthesis  #Playback  #Synthesis  #Emulation  

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sidplayfp is a console application capable of emulating the 6581, 8580 chips along with similar Commodore 64 systems and can ensure a clearer or crisper SID music play. As you probably hinted, the tool can emulate the notorious SIDPLAY, a music player renowned for it ability to emulate the sound chip and other internals of the C64 home computer to play background music that was essentially written for this purpose.

SID or Sound Interface Driver is the sound chip of this home computer and the sounds it produced are known as SID music. For those unfamiliar, the chip acts as a three-voice synthesizer on a chip, an unusual, but highly distinct and highly appreciated combination of analog and digital circuitry.

Even though the chip could generate noise waveform, variable pulse width and triangle waveforms simultaneously, it could support some modulation effects such as bell-like, metallic or hard-synced together voices, to name a few. The voices can be contoured via an envelope generator that can change the sound's attack, decay, sustain and release.

SIDPLAY is a tool that has been designed with the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) in mind and perhaps, this is why it is still known as one of the best tools to provide an exquisite music experience even to this day.

What's new in sidplayfp 2.2.3:

  • Filewriter: only add extension if the given name doesn't provide one already (issue #10)
  • Restore correct default record lenght (issue #11)
  • Doc: update default playback frequency
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sidplayfp 2.2.3

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PRICE: Free
  runs on:
Windows 11
Windows 10 64 bit
  file size:
706 KB
  filename:
sidplayfp-2.2.3-lib2.3.1-w64.zip
  1 screenshot:
sidplayfp - You can set the start time, frequency and other SID addresses using commands
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