Turning the ultimate 80s gaming machine into a synthesizer

[DW_Fry]

I'll be soldering together a SID2SID to add a second SID sound chip, allowing either stereo sound or 6 simultaneous voices instead of 3. That setup works with the MSSIAH sequencer/synth emulator cartridge I ordered, which also has a MIDI input jack on the top of it.

As you can see in this picture, I'm also adding 2 knobs to control the volume of each SID independently, plus 4 knobs to control assignable synth paramaters. These are soldered directly into the keyboard input on the motherboard, so there won't be any kludgey wires dangling around. 2 1/4" output jacks and an RCA composite video out jacked into the monitor output will be next, possibly followed by vacuum tube preamps. At some point I'll mount a 7" LCD TV to the case, so it'll have a built-in display.



Of course, it plays Commodore games, too :)

[DW_Bomzin]

Looks like a project. BTW . Nothing wrong with dangly wires. :smmm:

[DW_Fry]

Not if it's going to stay at home... but I plan on taking it to shows.

[DW_Bomzin]

Ok more picts when you have something more then knoby's. :thumbright:

If there is anything to see maybe a plexi bottom. :scool:

[DW_Damaged]

Looks like you put a lot of thought into this Fry. :thumbright:

I want to hook up the riding lawn mower engine to the washing machine to see if I can cut the wash cycle in half. Was wondering if you could help me out. :sbigsmile: