[Coco] C64 converted into low operating keys

[Ciaran Anscomb]

Bill Pierce wrote:
> 
> Actually, given the right software, the Coco can produce quite a few
> interesting and very musical sounds. [...]
> 
> There's been tons of software for synthesis on the Coco. Two that I know of
> are in Rainbow mag. Then you have Sountrax, Maxsound, Studio Works, all of
> which use sampled waveforms to produce music. [...]
> 
> Programs like Musica, Lyra (TV Play), Bells & Whistles 2, Composer, Music++,
> all use wavetable sound synthesis. [...]

Just to pad out the list, there's also Synther 7 (which I don't *think*
was Dragon-only) and Rem's CoCoSID - for which source is available if
you want to hack on it[0]:

https://sites.google.com/site/rveilleux/coco3home/rems-cocosid3

So you can indeed get some nice noises.  Although in this case Jeri
only used the sound chip from the original C64 guts - our "sound chip"
is pretty much just a bunch of resistors!

..ciaran

[0] And I did want to hack on it, so:
    http://www.6809.org.uk/dragon/demo/#nyan