Elektron SidStation

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"The SidStation is a MIDI-controlled synthesizer with real-time controllers. The heart of this synthesizer is the sound generating chip from the classic home computer Commodore 64. This sound chip, named SID (Sound Interface Device) was developed in the early eighties by Bob Yannes at MOS technology."

"The rediscovery of the SID-sound will be a pleasant surprise for many sound explorers that are looking for something more exiting than the current crop of analog imitating 'virtual' synthesizers."

Features of the SidStation synth module include a rotary wheel for easy data entry, an alpha-numeric 2x16 LCD display with back-lighting, audio input and output, 3 syncable oscillators with traditional (triangle, sawtooth, pulse) waveforms, nice resonant filters, arpeggiators, effects and ring modulation. The numeric keyboard and large knobs offer a unique form of hands-on desktop dance / techno music production for the 90's and beyond!

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Audio Clip 1 Some in your face samples and effects created by the SidStation demonstrating some of the Sid's more peculiar sounds and effects.

Specifications

Oscillators - 3 osc: triangle, sawtooth, pulse, mixed, noise; PWM
LFO - 4 individual routable LFOs
Filter - 1 Resonant filter: lowpass, bandpass, highpass or any combination
Effects - Portamento
Arpeg/Seq - One Arpeggiator for each oscillator
Keyboard - Numeric keyboard
Control - MIDI In, Out, Through
Date Produced - 1999

Resources

Images from the SidStation site.