Blue is okay for RGB effects or for special effects lights, like police flashers… Next is green, then yellow, and at last white. It ruins the appeal of the old tech and makes it look like chineese toy from dollar store…īest color for any indicator light that will be on at night is either red or amber. These don’t need any backlight at all, and especially not blue. I have a special hatred for people who place blue LEDs under Nixie tubes or other thermionic valves. And if it’s a 7-segment display, there will be no filter over it to dim the light.
And it’s almost always the high-brightness one set to full power. Hobbyists are partially to blame – most projects end up with at least one blue LED. Blue naturally draws your sight towards itself at night. It’s dim, but still I had to cover it with something – it was too much at night. My monitor has tiny blue LED that is on, when monitor is off. But the worst part is, how much they get overused in just about everything. Posted in Musical Hacks, Retrocomputing Tagged commodore 64, sid, SID synth Post navigationīlue LEDs are almost always too bright. Naturally, we’re also fans of projects that include ominous, cryptic keyswitches. The seven-segment display centered on the board makes for a delightfully simple visualizer, an effect that looks even better when running two Monty boards at once, each responding to alternate MIDI channels (check out the video below). This isn’t the first MIDI synth that is based around the C64 SID chip, but made sure that his stood out from the crowd. The SID is well understood by this point, and goes into great detail explaining the fundamentals of SID programming over on GitHub. MIDI commands are transferred to the dual SIDs by way of an ATmega1284p microcontroller. Realizing the limitations of having ‘just’ three voices, Monty is designed to use two SID chips in parallel, for a total of six voices in pleasing stereo sound. While the road to this point unfortunately resulted in several blown-up SID chips, the sacrifice seems to have paid off.
When you mix MIDI with the capabilities of the SID, you get something like ’s awesome looking synth, known as ‘Monty’. This was at a time when most home computers could just about manage a ‘beep’ of varying lengths and frequencies. The 6581 was a three-voice analog synth with a dizzying array of settings. The 6581 SID arguably blessed the Commodore 64 with some of the best sound capabilities of any home computer in the 8-bit era (make sure to ‘sound off’ in the comments if you disagree).
His take on the MIDI SID-based synth not only sounds fantastic, but looks the business. Over the years, plenty of work has gone into emulating the CommodSID chip, but as puts it, nothing beats the real thing.
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