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[Michael Schwendt]

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