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Unboxing and exploring the Commodore 64's Incredible Musical Keyboard
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https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains
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It's time. We have to unleash the music in my Commodore 64.
In today's unscripted unboxing episode of Veronica Explains, we explore the Incredible Musical Keyboard from Sight and Sound Music Software, Inc. It's an approximately 40 year old peripheral for the Commodore 64 which allows me to make music on the SID chip!
We'll take a look at the keyboard overlay itself, as well as the software that came with it, and some more modern software that can work alongside it.
Now for the link section. If you're still reading, say "I love hyperlinks" in the comments. At the time I'm publishing, Archive.org is down- I hope to put links to this stuff on that website as soon as I can confirm them.
My band (The Stop Bits):
🕸️ On the web: http://www.thestopbits.net
🎸 Bandcamp link for today's song: https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/track/rip-out-the-battery-sid-edition
👩🏻🎤 My bandmates: @TaylorAmyShow and @ActionRetro , go subscribe to them!
Now, for the other creators from our rich and vibrant vintage computing community, whose videos I briefly mentioned or showed:
@JanBeta , who did an awesome video about the Aldi C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0S61L3Vy_0
@8_Bit , who did a very in-depth wrap-up of VCFMW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMQTL-0Y9Zs
@Mac84 , who also did a great showcase of VCFMW and presented some wonderful info at the event (sorry we interrupted the end of your talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqOC4NVfzj8
@JeremysRetroBar , who did another great showcase of VCFMW (thank you for the kind words about the band): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1QYrzE82JQ
@adriansdigitalbasement2 , who showed off a healthy sticker collection and shared some kind words about the band before doing one of the best SID comparisons I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQGWcHCzZmU
@CanadianRetroThings , who (you guessed it) did another great showcase of VCFMW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAD6KAFF6Xs
Let's see... stuff I mentioned in the video (this is where archive.org links will go if we can manifest them back into existence):
🎹 MSSIAH cartridge: https://mssiah.com/
Finally, here are the chapters:
0:00 What is a SID chip?
2:17 Unboxing 40 year old computer paraphernalia
4:50 Incredible Documentation
10:11 Setting up the Commodore 64 for incredible music
13:19 Using the Incredible Music Keyboard's keyboard software
22:12 Kawasaki Rhythm Rocker (Demo)
24:05 The Music Processor (Demo)
26:11 Conclusions... was it incredible?
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By Support the channel:
https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains
https://ko-fi.com/VeronicaExplains
It's time. We have to unleash the music in my Commodore 64.
In today's unscripted unboxing episode of Veronica Explains, we explore the Incredible Musical Keyboard from Sight and Sound Music Software, Inc. It's an approximately 40 year old peripheral for the Commodore 64 which allows me to make music on the SID chip!
We'll take a look at the keyboard overlay itself, as well as the software that came with it, and some more modern software that can work alongside it.
Now for the link section. If you're still reading, say "I love hyperlinks" in the comments. At the time I'm publishing, Archive.org is down- I hope to put links to this stuff on that website as soon as I can confirm them.
My band (The Stop Bits):
🕸️ On the web: http://www.thestopbits.net
🎸 Bandcamp link for today's song: https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/track/rip-out-the-battery-sid-edition
👩🏻🎤 My bandmates: @TaylorAmyShow and @ActionRetro , go subscribe to them!
Now, for the other creators from our rich and vibrant vintage computing community, whose videos I briefly mentioned or showed:
@JanBeta , who did an awesome video about the Aldi C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0S61L3Vy_0
@8_Bit , who did a very in-depth wrap-up of VCFMW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMQTL-0Y9Zs
@Mac84 , who also did a great showcase of VCFMW and presented some wonderful info at the event (sorry we interrupted the end of your talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqOC4NVfzj8
@JeremysRetroBar , who did another great showcase of VCFMW (thank you for the kind words about the band): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1QYrzE82JQ
@adriansdigitalbasement2 , who showed off a healthy sticker collection and shared some kind words about the band before doing one of the best SID comparisons I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQGWcHCzZmU
@CanadianRetroThings , who (you guessed it) did another great showcase of VCFMW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAD6KAFF6Xs
Let's see... stuff I mentioned in the video (this is where archive.org links will go if we can manifest them back into existence):
🎹 MSSIAH cartridge: https://mssiah.com/
Finally, here are the chapters:
0:00 What is a SID chip?
2:17 Unboxing 40 year old computer paraphernalia
4:50 Incredible Documentation
10:11 Setting up the Commodore 64 for incredible music
13:19 Using the Incredible Music Keyboard's keyboard software
22:12 Kawasaki Rhythm Rocker (Demo)
24:05 The Music Processor (Demo)
26:11 Conclusions... was it incredible?