Not to mention "Honorabili Killed RKO" and the C64 MAfia song
at Spooftraxx (that name again, it's Spooftraxx, http://www.geocities.com/spooftraxx)

Yep, it's a symphony all right...

> travelling down the thames playing bitpop sounds quite cool !!!!
Well, people will travel to BIT Live Brighton in a SID coach..
(Stansted -> Brighton). That's pretty good too, and will really happen

Chris

> KIDZ
BMX or Scuba?

Chris

Just wanted to mention that the album is hosted at a c64audio.com site...
all hail.. er.. us..!

Yep, happy married life is yours! Congratulations!

Chris

> Instead of getting answers, the fronts are hardening. Strange,
> real strange...

Not really: you're dealing with musicians. We're a weird lot, and we're very proud of our little babies...

Chris

> stay a while...

Staaaay... nah, it's too cliche...

<<< Of course, you can also put average -- or good but unspectacular -- tunes on a CD and try to sell that CD. But don't be surprised when your potential customers are disappointed. >>> Any particular CD in mind? Or is this a hypothetical CD? FWIW, I think Shadow Skimmer suffers a bit in the votingf...

> Chris, i think you took the wrong example, my friend There are GM synths out there which I'm sure use stock sounds from the JD800: after all, they've got to come from somewhere: the "New Age" sound on GM has to be produced on some synth or other and then mapped into the soundset: and it'...

> The instruments.... i don't use any midi presets or so... i just have > a collection of samples, mostly extracted from synths, Which ironically would be mostly MIDI presets, since most workstations and synths out there are based around GM in some way. So the ones that were easily gettable (for ins...

If you're a good reviewer, it's possible to review a cover without liking the original and be fair to the cover, as long as you recognise whether it's captured the spirit of the original, and take note of the technical achievements of the piece... in fact, some covers of originals I didn't like I've...

It's not that bad, but these days to get people impressed you've probably got to do more... As far as I can hear, in this piece you've got drums (not in the SID), the bass (was), lead (was), arpeggios (was), and some pads (not in the SID). So this is replayed SID + chords + drums. Not that this is n...

Who was the first SID fan on the moon?

Neil Carrmstrong

ba-doom tss!

> seems so, which is a bit disapoiting really as we didn't want to go
> that way really.
I always thought it was inevitable: when you get the wider public
actually producing content, it's bound to be of ... variable quality, shall
we say.

Chris