On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:30:41 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 01:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > Having a really GOOD soundbank will keep your midi playback from > > sounding like a cheap ragtime piano on a C-64. <chuckles> Ric > > I recall how many cheap sound card's inbuilt MIDI playback abilities > sounded like a cheap Casio keyboard (those two-octave things, that are > just one step above a child's plastic mouth organ). They probably used > the same chipset. ;-) No, they didn't. Actually, the C-64 could do eight octaves and create rich sounds with fascinating possibilities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_SID
